Steiger
Legal name: Steiger International Limited
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363517418
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Eden Prairie, MN, USA
- Phone
- 9524910254
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,789,302
- Expenses
- $4,054,551
- Assets
- $4,455,010
- Liabilities
- $381,302
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AARON PIERCE (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- AARON PIERCE (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $119,050 total reported compensation
- BRIAN STEPHENS (CFO): $107,650 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Steiger mobilizes followers of Jesus to reach young people who would not walk into a church. Steiger International Center The Steiger International Center, located in Krögis, Germany, is a former communist compound purchased by our mission in 2010. As the home to the Steiger Missions School, the Center is the “heart” of Steiger. A place once built to suppress faith, now being redeemed as the place where the next generation of missionaries is raised up and sent out. Due to the ever-increasing number of young people coming to the School, the Center is currently at full capacity. We are seeking to complete significant renovations and an expansion of our 55,000 sq. ft. training facility. Give now.
What it reported doing in 2025
Steiger raises up missionaries and equips the local church to proclaim the message of jesus in the language of the global youth culture and establishes long-term presence in cities through ongoing outreach, discipleship and local church partnership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 49.8%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 82.6%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 49th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 40.3%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 49.8% of revenue deployed · 82.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $119K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 50/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.