Send Us International Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
994184928
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Eden, NC, USA
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$238,024
Expenses
$210,318
Assets
$34,338
Liabilities
$1,576

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Allison Raeburn (President)
  • Luke Wilson (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Allison Raeburn (President)
  • Luke Wilson (Vice President)
  • Hope Bogaert (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

To live out the great commission by creating and sending disciples to the nations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Send Us Short Term: Send Us Short Term provides opportunities for local churches, families, and individuals to serve alongside international church partners. These 78 day trips focus on supporting local congregations through discipleship training, evangelism, church construction and improvement projects, and feeding initiatives. Participants are equipped to share the love of Christ in practical and spiritual ways, while building relationships that strengthen the local churchs long-term ministry impact.Send Us Summer: Send Us Summer is an 8-week program for young adults (ages 1822) designed to combine intensive discipleship with hands-on ministry. Participants complete a 50-hour Bible discipleship course while serving alongside local churches in Panama. The program emphasizes spiritual growth, personal discipline, and a deeper understanding of God's Word, while also equipping students to serve practicallysupporting local congregations, engaging in community outreach, and building meaningful relationships with the people of Panama.Send Us Spanish School: Send Us Spanish School equips participants with the language skills needed to build stronger relationships with international partners and serve more effectively in cross-cultural ministry. Through focused Spanish learning, participants gain the ability to communicate the gospel, encourage local believers, and connect with communities in meaningful waysdeepening both personal discipleship and ministry impact.Tennis with the Twins: This is a traveling ministry program that partners with local churches and Christian non-profits throughout the United States. The program combines competitive tennis demonstrations with Christian outreach, visiting communities in each state to engage local congregations and share the gospel through sports ministry and fellowship activities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 0
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • 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: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 157.6% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 97.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $182K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.