SonSet Solutions
Legal name: Sonset Solutions Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464043025
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2020
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020
- Location
- Elkhart, IN, USA
- Phone
- +1 574.970.4252
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Radio
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,234,092
- Expenses
- $1,872,010
- Assets
- $3,460,253
- Liabilities
- $129,740
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAIVD RUSSELL (PRESIDENT AN)
Highest reported compensation
- DAIVD RUSSELL (PRESIDENT AN): $95,756 total reported compensation
- JONATHAN FIET (CHIEF FIN. O): $86,316 total reported compensation
- CURTLIN BENDER (V.P OPERATIO): $66,910 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide technology-based solutions **to advance the Gospel worldwide**.
What it reported doing in 2020
The activities of sonset solutions, inc. Are centered on the use of traditional and emerging technology for the propagation of the christian message and the strengthening of the christian church. We provide high quality technology-based equipment, service, consultation, and training to organizations who share our objectives. In 2020 we assisted 180 ministry organizations in 60 countries. We supplied transmitters, antenna systems, studio equipment, automation software and shipped over 8,273 fixed-tuned solar-power radio receivers for community and regional radio broadcast stations. We developed and delivered 300 satellite-based remote monitors for water systems that help ensure a dependable supply of clean water in underprivileged areas of the world. This caring for human need is a tangible demonstration of the essence of the message we seek to propagate. In 2020 we welcomed the participation of 3 university students who caught the vision and worked alongside us in these worthy activities. Sonset solutions inc. In its 7th year, continues the good work it began in 2014.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.2%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.85; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.