Servants to Asia's Urban Poor
Legal name: Servants to Asia S Urban Poor Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262172877
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Friendswood, TX, United States
- Phone
- (+1) 612-419-7281
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,097
- Expenses
- $97,673
- Assets
- $129,971
- Liabilities
- $121,013
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Caroline Freer (President)
People named in this filing
- Caroline Freer (President)
- George L Porterfield (Financial Coordinator)
- Jason G Porterfield (Secretary)
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
To see the urban poor and their communities transformed by the power of Christ. Servants elders are a group of outside advisers with experience in mission and supportive of our principles and values. They have journeyed alongside Servants for some time, and hold us to account if needed. They use their various gifts and expertise to promote and support Servants. Our Current Elders: Irene Alexander Irene. We believe that the Scriptures are inspired by God and useful for our training, equipping and transformation as we meditate on, study and apply them (2 Timothy 2:15, 3:16), and that our approach to the Scriptures must be one of faithfulness and application (1 Timothy 6:1-5; James 1:21-22). We believe that the ultimate purpose of Scripture (the written Word) is to lead us into relationship with Jesus (Luke 24:7; John 5:39-40; Hebrews 1:1-3), the Living Word (John 1:1, 1:14; Hebrews...
What it reported doing in 2025
Continued to maintain a team of workers for outreach in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia. Aided many refugees who were evicted from long time living locations. Many living in the slums have contracted TB, so provided improved access to medical care , treatment and diagnosis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.93; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -25% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.