Metro Effect Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814056738
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Adel, IA, USA
Phone
5638451201
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$139,010
Expenses
$122,275
Assets
$209,479
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • David Hickman (President)

People named in this filing

  • David Hickman (President)
  • Lori Richardson (Secretary)
  • Tim Canney (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Metro Effect seeks to help people in unreached urban areas know Jesus. Unreached urban areas can be portions of cities or entire cities where less than 2% of the population is Evangelical Christian. To help people know Jesus, Metro Effect leads short term mission trips and empowers missionary partners and local urban Christians to tell people about Jesus and show people how much Jesus loves them in hopes that they will have faith in Jesus and develop strong relationships with Him.

What it reported doing in 2025

Indian Ministry Partnerships. Our Indian ministry partnerships were very fruitful in 2025. Enrollment at the Life Tree Foundation school is over 300 students including traditional students and students in the remedial program. We provide funds for operating expenses, which helps empower the school to give an excellent, Christ-centered education to children from underprivileged backgrounds, and we give advice to the leadership team. We provide financial assistance and encouragement for them. The Hindi Bible College has more than 100 students. We also assist a few after-school tuition centers with operating expenses. The goal for Indian Ministry Partnerships in 2026 is to maintain these ministries.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 90
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $119K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.