Narramore Christian Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952018760
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Arcadia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6268218400
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,060,732
- Expenses
- $1,197,428
- Assets
- $14,335,737
- Liabilities
- $248,368
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mr Craig Scoon (Vice President/CFO)
- Mr Timothy Hibma (President/CEO)
- Mrs Cindy Hibma (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Mr Craig Scoon (Vice President/CFO): $126,884 total reported compensation
- Mr Timothy Hibma (President/CEO): $75,692 total reported compensation
- Mrs Cindy Hibma (Vice President): $75,692 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Narramore Christian Foundation (NCF) provides Christ-centered training and counseling for pastors, organization leaders, missionaries and their children, member care providers, and other Kingdom workers. NCF is a global ministry devoted to the prevention and solving of personal and interpersonal issues that are experienced within this often-underserved population. Our seminars, literature, and ministry outreaches are provided using sound Biblical principals integrated with evidence-based psychology.
What it reported doing in 2024
Website literature: fully integrated the NCF literature ministry into the website (www.ncfliving.org), which now provides digital copies of booklets, magazines and newsletters on issues of a psychological nature. The website also provides links to valuable mental health resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 62.5%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 86.6%; rating input score 87; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.97; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 62.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $748K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 40 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 16/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.