Mission Padamo Aviation & Support Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204725940
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Island Lake, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8472501701
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,002,028
- Expenses
- $890,573
- Assets
- $457,622
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JERALD DAWSON (PRESIDENT AND TREASURER)
People named in this filing
- JERALD DAWSON (PRESIDENT AND TREASURER)
- RYAN DAWSON (SECRETARY)
- MICHAEL DAWSON (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of mission padamo aviation and support, inc. (mpas) is to glorify god by spreading the gospel of jesus christ to the indigenous people of amazonas, venezuela.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other program services included: free flights for sick and injured indignous natives so they could receive medical care; funds to buy food to feed approximately 200 elderly and vulnerable children on weekly basis; funds to purchase a residence in town to house sick and injured people who come in from jungle for medical help; funds to purchase a base generator to provide electricity to a village; purchase gasoline and diesel for the mission base
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.8%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 10th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 15th 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; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 11.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.8% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $850K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 18 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.