Serve to Serve International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800550218
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Cumming, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6789781967
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,739
- Expenses
- $135,950
- Assets
- $29,889
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Colin Denlea (CEO/President)
People named in this filing
- Steven Thiltgen (Secretary)
- Colin Denlea (CEO/President)
- Joseph Wilson (CFO)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build the Church of Christ around the world through church planting, leadership development and training.
What it reported doing in 2024
Program Accomplishments for Serving to Serve International for 2024 In 2024, Serving to Serve International pursued its vision of "Catalyzing Movements of Multiplying Churches" globally. Serving to Serve continued its work in Pakistan, Croatia, and Slovenia where we held Catalyst Community Church Planting Conferences, conducted leadership development training, and helped start 1,214 New Churches. Serving to Serve also began new work with leaders in India, Bhutan, Syria, Bangladesh, and Lebanon through coaching and internet gatherings for training and network building. In addition, we continued resourcing existing work and church planting in 9 countries. Serving to Serve maintains active and ongoing coaching and training with the main leaders of all the countries we are working in throughout the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
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: 4.8%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $106K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.