Serve India Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861174433
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Charleston, IL, United States
- Phone
- (217) 345-5746 (EST)
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,777,008
- Expenses
- $3,332,827
- Assets
- $2,367,002
- Liabilities
- $781
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ebenezer Samuel Chelladurai (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Susan Westfall (Secretary): $62,820 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serve India Ministries Events (SIM Events) offer a powerful window into our mission—connecting our field teams in South Asia with our global family of supporters. These events are designed to foster understanding, build trust, and strengthen shared purpose. 🔶 Experience Transformation Up Close At every SIM Event, you’ll gain firsthand insight into:. DonateSupport a Pastor Our Mission Serve India Ministries is dedicated to strengthening Christian leaders and equipping them with in-depth biblical knowledge through a variety of theological education programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
The main activities of Serve India Ministries in 2025 were as follows: 1. Bible training and vocational training for 5,177 native church leaders. 2. Enrollment of 17,000 adults in a literacy program. 3. Distribution of Bibles to Christian believers and church workers. 4. Enrollment of 5,800 children in Egg Project after-school tutoring program. 5. Monthly support of 83 widows of deceased pastors.
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 95% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $87.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.7% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.