Mission Catalyst International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043644960
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2815078888
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $506,263
- Expenses
- $468,708
- Assets
- $272,161
- Liabilities
- $3,508
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James Eby (President)
- Kenneth Womack (Vice President)
- Daniel Bradley (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- James Eby (President): $69,229 total reported compensation
- Kenneth Womack (Vice President): $63,680 total reported compensation
- Daniel Bradley (Executive Director): $5,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Equipping national leaders, both men and women, primarily in the 10/40 window, to be more effective in ministering to their communities through meeting physical and spiritual needs, evangelism and church planting among the worlds least-reached peoples.
What it reported doing in 2024
Equipping national leaders, both men and women, primarily in the 10/40 window, to be more effective in ministering to their communities through meeting physical and spiritual needs, evangelism and church planting amoung the worlds least reached peroples. Some achivements are new training, conferences, church plants and new baptisms.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 53% for direct work, and 47% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 67
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 47.2%; rating input score 47; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 7.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $437K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 28 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.