TFS Worldwide
Legal name: Tfs Worldwide Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261555235
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Midland, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5404238847
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,014
- Expenses
- $77,551
- Assets
- $124,465
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Bass (president)
People named in this filing
- Scott Bass (president)
- Donald Bass (Board Member)
- Glenn Bingham (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
TFS Worldwide teaches, farms, and serves the people of South Sudan as we work to show God's love and minister to those in need; it goes to those most in need and helps them build sustainable, supportive farming businesses. It's simple. We go to those most in need and help them build sustainable, supportive farming businesses. South Sudan is filled with people living in constant hunger and constant danger. Building a farm in South Sudan goes a long way to shining a light in the darkness. Just a few ways it does that are;. 99% of all support goes directly to farm expenses. Everyone who works with TFS Worldwide volunteers their time and expertise. A brief history of South Sudan.
What it reported doing in 2025
Teaching sustainable agriculture in Aru Junction, South Sudan. The teaching farm in Aru Junction continues to make progress on the ground. The farm is now operational, and in 2025 the farm is now growing and testing crop varieties to teach and demonstrate a full time presence in local markets vice a seasonal one. Many individuals learned valuable skills in 2025, and plans to test a small poultry operation are planned for 2026. In addition to teaching, advice and consultation, the farm is making seed and seedlings grown in the greenhouse available to encourage local farmers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1,446.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.