Tri-Faith Initiative
Legal name: The Tri-faith Initiative of Omaha Nebraska
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205485984
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Omaha, NE, United States
- Phone
- 4029342955
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $503,724
- Expenses
- $1,303,972
- Assets
- $7,164,471
- Liabilities
- $13,532
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RENEE FRANKLIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (BEG 11/3/25))
Highest reported compensation
- ABDUL MACKIE (DIRECTOR (END 2/25)/OPERATIONS MGR): $35,831 total reported compensation
- RENEE FRANKLIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (BEG 11/3/25)): $17,210 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Building Community. Bridging Difference. Tri-Faith provides opportunities to gather across differences as neighbors, as well as educational programming that invites curiosity around the full spectrum of how people relate to religion differently; making religious pluralism a social norm by convening diverse communities, encouraging candid conversations, and building bold partnerships to fill critical gaps.
What it reported doing in 2025
Tri-faith aims to increase religious, racial, and ethnic inclusions; create healthier communities; and increase equity and belongingness among marginalized groups. We provide classes, workshops, opportunities for dialogue, gatherings, and much more. We connect communities across differences, reduce isolation, intentionally broaden our reach, and build an expansive culture of social support. We spotlight communities that understand the benefits of building cultures of belonging.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.2%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 17
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.37 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd 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: 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -158.9%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.49; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 45.2% of revenue deployed · 17.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $226K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 26 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $188K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.