Servant Partners Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Program Service Accomplishments Narrative for FY25 990 public documentServant Partners conducted community development and relief projects in California, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, as well as in a number of foreign countries.Spiritual Discipleship and Church Planting: Servant Partners seeks to establish churches that flow from the organic life of the local Christian community and to build relationships that develop life-long followers of Jesus. All of the sites have home churches and/or small discipleship groups where people can grow in faith, find encouragement, and intercede for each other. In 2025, there were 1485 Jesus Communities represented by Servant Partners sites, partnerships, and the members of the Covenant in Servant Partners' Global Partnership for Urban Transformation. Develop Leaders and Organize Communities: Servant Partners values community engagement. At several sites, it provided local leader and community organizing training, including conflict resolution, mentoring, and counseling. In 2025, there were 3330 people engaged in local leadership and 641 community engagement initiatives across Servant Partners sites and the network of national movements connected through Servant Partners' Global Partnership for Urban Transformation.Engaging Families and Communities in Lifelong Learning: Youth programs play a key role in healthy communities. Almost all of the Servant Partner sites have programs devoted to youth and their well being. Programs include tutoring, sports, arts, and summer enrichment programs. These programs range in size from 20 to 200 youth, depending on the community. Parenting programs often accompany the youth programs, and include parenting skills, budgeting, housing, employment, and identifying misinformation. The majority of the overseas locations offer language learning opportunities, with English being the primary language, but one site also offers Spanish.Promoting Health: Health efforts include teaching about hygiene and healthy living habits, providing mental health and wellness workshops, providing counseling and psychological support, and both providing and teaching about inner healing prayer. These efforts touched hundreds of people worldwide. Promoting Economic Growth: Servant Partners seeks to build economic sufficiency in the communities it serves. Other efforts include offering business skills courses, computer skills classes, business plan development assistance, business budgeting, finding small loan programs and working with community members as they apply for, receive. and repay their loans. One of the domestic sites offers welding and CAD classes that lead to industry certifications, including a training specifically for Women in Non-Traditional Careers. Promoting Beauty and Creativity: Efforts for promoting beauty and creativity include local community gardens, tree planting efforts, cultural events, general art and painting classes, and providing maker spaces where community members can come, use provided supplies, and create. Organization Development: In October 2025, Servant Partners welcomed a new Executive Team. As part of the Vision 2030 initiatives, the National Movements Department continued to build the Global Partnerships for Urban Transformation that has partners from 7 nations. Training included cultural agility training for the site ministry teams. The Administration Team completed a transition to a new, more modern donor database. The organization provided additional remote and in-person training opportunities, fund development support, intercession and spiritual mentorship, and administrative support to all staff.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
• Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: $22.6 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • 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: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 44th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings