Kingdom Channels Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811809728
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Ephrata, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7575241040
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,202,603
- Expenses
- $1,294,703
- Assets
- $967,488
- Liabilities
- $122,722
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BRENT BEAR (M&R TEAM LEADER FORMER DIRECTOR): $78,811 total reported compensation
- M M (EXECUTIVE TEAM LEADER FORMER DIREC): $76,650 total reported compensation
- MARLIN SOMMERS (ADMINISTRATOR): $36,276 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Making disciples of christ and establishing assemblies which uphold all his teachings among people groups in the region known as the 10/40 window that have minimal jesus following presence. Our mission also includes mobilizing, training, educating, and equipping believers.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization operates globally, ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of those in need through teaching english, mentoring, teaching vocational skills, small scale humanitarian aid, community development, and showing love in other practical ways on a day-to-day basis. The organization also provides various training and awareness programs for mobilizing and equipping disciples of christ.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $937K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $79K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.