Missionary Flights International
Legal name: Missionary Flights & Service Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237199063
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Pierce, FL, United States
- Phone
- 772-462-2395
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,201,608
- Expenses
- $4,030,646
- Assets
- $11,725,717
- Liabilities
- $777,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joe Karabensh (President)
- Roger Sands (Vice President Secretary and Treasurer)
- Larry Campbell (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Joe Karabensh (President): $90,896 total reported compensation
- Roger Sands (Vice President Secretary and Treasurer): $73,800 total reported compensation
- Larry Campbell (Vice President): $47,850 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To spread the Good News of Jesus Christ in partnership with Bible centered missions by providing transportation and logistical services. We also feel it is incumbent upon us to keep faith with those who actively support this ministry, often with sacrificial giving. We have not set ourselves as judges of any man or ministry but simply feel we must do what is consistent with our understanding of the Word of God. This then is our policy regarding MFI services: MFI will provide support to protestant mission organizations which are in agreement with our Statement of Faith and are actively engaged in the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
What it reported doing in 2024
Missionary Flights and Services Inc. provides passenger transportation and air freight services in connection with Bible centered mission organizations that serve the Caribbean Islands. Our main focus is meeting the physical and spiritual needs of those in Haiti. We average two to three airplane flights per week that depart from our base headquarters in Fort Pierce FL.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 46
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $35.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 80%; rating input score 80; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 22.5%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.91; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 44 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PayrollTaxes column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PensionPlanContributions column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.