Kontaktmission USA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860983324
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Humboldt, TN, USA
- Phone
- 7317849422
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,676,028
- Expenses
- $2,613,094
- Assets
- $1,513,707
- Liabilities
- $54,658
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT D HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ROBERT D HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- G DAVID FLINT (DIRECTOR)
- J PAUL COVERT (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kontaktmission is a Europe-based, decentralized mission movement that empowers Christians worldwide to live out their God-given callings and send them out for the building up of His church; church planting is a primary objective. The Pillars of Our Work (Our Mission, Our Goals) The mission of Kontaktmission is to send missionaries to areas with little or no Christian witness and to train and support local workers in order to establish self-supporting churches, which will then send missionaries to plant churches. send ▪ plant ▪ multiply. There is more than one way to partner with KM. Let’s be honest, we are a mission agency; we will happily receive a check from a church or individual who doesn’t want to be involved any deeper than that. However, what we encourage, what we hope for, is an interaction between missionary and supporting church or individual. Paul spoke to the Philippian...
What it reported doing in 2024
Church planting and the training and education of members of the local church congregations to become pastors and leaders of local churches. This processs includes bible training, evangelism, worship, and church management
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,265.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.