Torchbearer Foundation for Missions Reconciliation and Development Dba Igniting Africa
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470847030
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dardenne Prairie, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3306085424
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,434
- Expenses
- $10,684
- Assets
- $6,871
- Liabilities
- $1,429
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CAROLINE NIBOH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CAROLINE NIBOH (PRESIDENT)
- PAUL ANDERSON (BOARD CHAIR)
- BARB LANIER (TREASURER)
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
We seek to ensure that poor children all across africa acquire the skills necessary to thrive, experience greater freedom, access to free enterprise, faith, and the love exemplified by jesus christ. We seek to teach them to embrace their responsibility for the transformation of individuals, communities, nations, and all of africa through these principles and practices based upon the gospel of our lord jesus christ. In 2024, we began doing charitable work in the st. Louis, Missouri, USA metro area and hope to expand this ministry to other areas as funding allows. The ministry work in the USA involves working with local churches to identify needy families to receive assistance in meeting household needs and christmas gifts for their children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Funding was provided to purchase cooking oil and rice for distribution to a group of 92 widows in Akeh Village, NW District, Cameroon. This group has been formed to provide mutual support, job and skills training, to carry out evangelistic work, and to perform community service projects in their village. Many have one or more children, and this food provides basic nutrition assistance for these families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.7%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 5
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -50.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.7% of revenue deployed · 5.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 8 filed program accomplishments · $541 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.