Nicaragua Christian Education Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
371393158
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Highland, IL, USA
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$20,438
Expenses
$107,440
Assets
$185,670

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Shirley Beltz (President)

People named in this filing

  • Linda Rensberrry (Director)
  • Duane Rensberry (Secretary and Treasurer)
  • Menno Miller (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

NiCE equips Nicaraguans to reach their country for Christ by supporting and equipping Christian Schools.

What it reported doing in 2025

NiCE continued our Christian school sponsorship with partial support of 5 schools This funding helps with teachers pay and utilities. Our schools are located in high poverty areas. We continue to fund a 3-day yearly educational retreat for over 100 teachers from many different schools about 150 students. We helped fund ANEC to manage our schools since we are not able to go to Nicaragua personally any longer due to the governments ever-increasing restrictions on virtually everyone and everything. We also provide ANEC with funding for expenses for distribution and supervision.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 34.1%; rating input score 34

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -425.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -18% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -43.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -10.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 34.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.