Mission 17
Legal name: Mission 17 Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820447997
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Meridian, ID, United States
- Phone
- +1 (208) 914-6145
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Religious Film, Video
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,502,898
- Expenses
- $612,003
- Assets
- $1,818,949
- Liabilities
- $1,229,240
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL BOERNER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL BOERNER (PRESIDENT): $33,333 total reported compensation
- BRYAN COLLINS (VP OF OPERAT): $33,112 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission 17, a 501(c)(3), collaborates with local churches across denominations to foster unity and strengthen the Treasure Valley community, using technology (StoryPath) to help churches engage their constituents via mobile-first video engagement. For the past 30 years, Mission Media, now rebranded to Mission 17, has been focused on building unity among Churches and in the body of Christ. It has received National and International Television exposure, on projects and initiatives that serve the natural and spiritual needs of others. Mission 17, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) entity that serves non-profits and philanthropic organizations. We are currently partnering with churches, ministries, and charities across the country. It is our desire to use break-through technology to help these organizations better engage with their constituents. Our Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mission 17 supports local churches through technology-enabled content creation and distribution. Program expenses were used to develop and deploy video production services and mobile communication plateforms for partner churches.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.97; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 77.6% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 109.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $612K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.