Mountaintop International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921462605
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024177171
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $289,642
- Expenses
- $231,556
- Assets
- $175,583
- Liabilities
- $33,975
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REED SHAFER-RAY (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- REED SHAFER-RAY (CEO): $72,185 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mountaintop international is a nonprofit that builds human infrastructurethe inner capacity of local communities worldwide to lead their own development and flourish. We work with individuals, mission-driven organizations, and public institutions to continued in sch o
What it reported doing in 2025
We invest in leaders solving urgent problems in their communities. To date 1 20,000 applicants from 179 countries, reflecting strong global demand and reach 2 fellows span the us and 17 countries across africa, asia, latin america, and europe as part of eight fellowships and executive education programs 3 fellows have been trained by leaders such as nobel peace prize laureate dr. Shirin ebadi 4 100 of fellows and alumni report a transformative or significant impact on their leadership trajectory 5 our two most recent fellowships both received a perfect net promoter score of 100 6 our most recent graduating fellow class increased revenues by 50 and staff size by 46 year on year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.7%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $55.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Pass
- Requires grant agreements: Pass
- May require repayment: Pass
- Grant itemization coverage: 65.2%; rating input score 65; 48th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.1%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 68.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 45.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.7% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $193K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.