Mission Opportunities Short Term
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382873880
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7349947909
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,249,570
- Expenses
- $1,057,611
- Assets
- $1,453,303
- Liabilities
- $196,674
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MARTIN MORO (EXECUTIVE DI): $109,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Most ministries is committed to impacting the world for jesus christ by empowering the found in reaching the lost. The significant activity is short term foreign mission projects.
What it reported doing in 2025
Short-term mission trips - teams serve in regions across the globe. Teams minister to the physical and spiritual needs of people. Projects include: agricultural education, clean water outreach, construction, dental clinics, english camp, eyeglass clinics, health education, hospice care training, medical clinics, music and/or sports camp, senior care training, women's, men's and youth ministries, and vbs, as well as others. Programs expand every year as new requests are received from the mission field. We carefully and prayfully consider requests and offer those which will enhance the strategic plans of the mission field and expand local pastors- and missionaries' capacity to reach their goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $28.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th 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: 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $927K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $109K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.