Reaching People Far from God
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272381756
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Banning, CA, United States
- Phone
- 9517973031
- Rating
- 61
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $143,115
- Expenses
- $117,999
- Assets
- $49,664
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID M KEALY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DAVID M KEALY (PRESIDENT)
- GARY URKE (SECRETARY)
- SHARON KEALY (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Reaching People far from God supports global indigenous Partner Ministries through consultancy, architectural design, and financial support. We are excited to report we have received the GuideStar Exchange’s Silver Participant level, a leading symbol of transparency and accountability provided by GuideStar USA, Inc, the premier source of nonprofit information. This level demonstrates our deep commitment to nonprofit transparency and accountability. Reaching People far from God supports global indigenous Partner Ministries; ministries we have worked with for 35 years. They each demonstrate strong measurable ability to share the love of God as exemplified by the voice and hands of Jesus; Jesus taught and he healed. We have worked hard to showcase our progress toward our mission of providing consultancy, architectural design and fin.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nepal & nepal resource center provided architectural design for the campus of the bethany house bible training center, site development for water system and covid-19 relief.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 82.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $118K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.