Maranatha Volunteers International
Legal name: Maranatha Volunteers International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381945104
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Roseville, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9167747700
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,227,905
- Expenses
- $19,387,702
- Assets
- $13,990,247
- Liabilities
- $550,575
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Don Noble (President)
- Mark Herscher (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Kyle Fiess (VP of Projects): $221,310 total reported compensation
- Kenneth Weiss (Chief Operating Officer): $205,304 total reported compensation
- Don Noble (President): $201,094 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Maranatha spreads the gospel throughout the world as it builds people through the construction of urgently needed buildings. Where We WorkCurrently, we are working more than a dozen countries, either actively building and sending volunteer teams or planning for a future effort. Explore the regional maps below to see where and how Maranatha is serving around the world.Learn More FAQsOur mission is simple but there are many ways to get involved. Read through a list of our most Frequently Asked Questions to learn more about Maranatha's ministry. Learn More GovernanceEveryone at Maranatha is passionate about our mission to provide urgently needed churches through volunteer service. Meet the people who make it happen. Learn More.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Maranatha responded to 1246 requests for assistance in 9 countries. This breaks down to 139 churches, 13 school buildings,280 wells, serviced 789 wells and 25 other renovations or construction projects around the world. The total value of these projects exceeded $16,000,000. This number does not include the value of service hours donated by 2,438 volunteers. During 2025, Maranatha mobilized volunteer teams to build 19 of these churches, 9 school buildings, and 8 other projects. The total value of the projects utilizing volunteers exceeded $9,000,000
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 67% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Limited
- 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $221K · 20 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $336K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 37 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.