North America Mainland Chinese Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 753153384
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5058562664
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $262,163
- Expenses
- $269,051
- Assets
- $358,433
- Liabilities
- $1,072
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Zhigang Zhang (President)
- Lilly Chan (Vice President)
- Jian Zhu (Vice President)
- Hui Li (Vice President)
- Ton Lee (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Zhigang Zhang (President): $55,000 total reported compensation
- Guanlin Lu (Pastoral and Executive Minister): $25,500 total reported compensation
- Jian Zhu (Vice President): $5,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NAMCM is organized as a Christian ministry along with individual and organization members. The members must be a leader who has at least served in a church or ministry organization affiliated with NAMCMs ministry. Members have the right to speak vote elect and to be elected. In most cases these rights are mainly exercised through the department or committee that the member is affiliated with or belongs to.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ministry of Church Transformation: a ministry which helps & mobilizes Chinese churches to become missional churches. The director of Church transformation is regarded as a full time missionary of NAMCM. NAMCM gives financial support to the director of this ministry.
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 48% for direct work, and 52% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 87.5%; rating input score 87; 53rd 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.9% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 13 filed program accomplishments · $220K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 45 of 46 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.