The 18.26 Network
Legal name: The 1826 Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832908927
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2021
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Greenville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 864-735-8674
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $344,325
- Expenses
- $145,554
- Assets
- $312,610
- Liabilities
- $263,325
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Judson H Lamos (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Debra H Beers (Operations Director): $2,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To make Christ known in every vocational context around the world
What it reported doing in 2021
Provide reimbursement of expenses of missionaries in provididng 'mission' goal-related services; includes travel & living expenses and ministry & training expenses.
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 17
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.8%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 20%; rating input score 20; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.7%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.84; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 16 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 7 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 33.8% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $116K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 20/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.