Mekane Kidusan Abune Gebre Menfes Kidus Eot Church
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842956679
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5713180698
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $349,304
- Expenses
- $152,209
- Assets
- $716,155
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Philipos Kebede (Director)
- Leouleseged Asfaw (Director)
- Tewodros Dejene (Officer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
It is a church organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes. It is incorporated as a spiritual church that abides by the Holy Bible and all ecclesiastical laws, rules, and regulations of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in all matters of faith, worship, creed, Holy tradition, and church administration harmonizing it with the Virginia corporation law.
What it reported doing in 2025
Prayer services, Bible studies, and fellowship- Mekane Kidusan Abune Gebre Menfes Kidus EOT Church provided a weekly prayer service, Bible studies and fellowship to the congregation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.5%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $37.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.71; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.5% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $137K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.