Mission Emanuel

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 463214379
IRS 990 coverage: 2017–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2025
Location: Spartanburg, SC, USA
Phone: 3367946871
Rating: 80
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation: Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue: $2,538,392
Expenses: $2,275,273
Assets: $922,039
Liabilities: $92,601

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JEFF ALEXANDER (PRESIDENT)
JAMES SWEENEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

JAMES SWEENEY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $142,930 total reported compensation
NICOLE BRAUN (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $65,295 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Mission emanuel (a nonprofit organization) is located in spartanburg, South Carolina. Mission emanuel (the organization) helps churches, schools, and similar organizations in the united states to broaden and deepen their respective constituents' sense of responsibility to the impoverished of their communities and of the world. The organization's primary vehicle to accomplish this is that of facilitating short-term mission trips to the dominican republic. There, the participants help by building churches, schools and homes; by helping children gain an education through child sponsorship programs; by providing medical, dental and psychology services; by providing clean water; and by providng community services and employment opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Mission emanuel helps the impoverished communities in the dominican republic by building and operating schools, helping children gain an education through child sponsorship programs, and providing access to clean water and medical care. The organization facilitates mission trips throughout the year which provides labor to aid with the needed construction projects.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 80
Transparency & Controls: 80
Accountability: 86
Sustainability: 40
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
Fundraising efficiency: $20.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Pay-setting controls: Limited
Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
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: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 17 people listed
Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
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: 6 of 8 not reported.
Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.