Schrage Christian Mission

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
431286413
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Joplin, MO, USA
Phone
4177820060
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$130,696
Expenses
$177,900
Assets
$166,101
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Schrage (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Larry Forkner (Chairman)
  • Randy Bailey (Vice Chairman)
  • Timothy Forkner (Board Member)

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

Schrage Christian Mission exists to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with the peoples of the world. The mission carries this out through the means of agricultural work, medical services and media in Kenya, and then throughout Africa and beyond. Production of religious materials; proclamation of religious teaching; and training of religious leaders are continually carried out. Additional orphanage aid is also given.

What it reported doing in 2025

Some of the major accomplishments of Schrage Christian Mission (SCM) recently included sponsoring the care of 73 orphans in Kenya, as well as educating those orphans. Also, SCM helped transition the Kenya Church of Christ Children's Home to the Kenya Church of Christ Rescue Center. This involved funding the physical move of the entity, the rental of temporary facilities, and the eventual purchase of new property to get reestablished in Kenya. SCM also helped with the training of pastors from northern Uganda through the Messiah Theological Training Institute in Mbale, Uganda. Finally, SCM helped in the maintenance of a Christian mission in Nimule, Sudan, and the establishment of 61 congregations in southern Sudan by that mission. This all in addition to SCM offering support of the president of Good News Productions Intentional both financially and spiritually to enable him to lead the organization of GNPI which has 120 staff in 17 countries. This ministry of GNPI is involved in the production of culturally relevant, evangelistic, and disciple-making media productions around the world.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 79.5%; rating input score 80

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -36.1%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 79.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $142K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.