Serving Our Neighbor International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300150739
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Plymouth, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9062353570
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,445
- Expenses
- $146,621
- Assets
- $308,744
- Liabilities
- $15,659
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ann Ziems (Vice President)
- Todd Ziems (President)
People named in this filing
- Ann Ziems (Vice President)
- Brad Jerome (Board member)
- Marcia Archaumbault (Board Member)
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 share the love of Jesus and advance God's Kingdom by serving our neighbors with water and community development projects. Installing water filters in Tanzania, education and training on water, sanitation and, hygiene.
What it reported doing in 2025
To serve our neighbors by sharing the love of Jesus through water development projects. Produced and installed 1465 bio-sand water filters directly impacting 8251 people. Trained families in the use of the filters WASH education for 462 children. Puberty Education for 698 students. Jesus Film project impacted 1463 people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 99% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.8%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 78%; 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: 25.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.8% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $114K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.