Touching Africa Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273523541
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Aurora, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3036802363
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $224,446
- Expenses
- $222,969
- Assets
- $46,553
- Liabilities
- $5,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TIFFANY WALKER (DIRECTOR): $36,500 total reported compensation
- ANN ELLIOTT (TREAS/SECRETARY): $19,900 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT): $17,900 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Spiritual and community development
What it reported doing in 2024
Leadership & church conferences - approx 100,000 affected by projects. Locations - ethiopia, tanzania & burundi; missionary training; children/youth programs; women/men/community conferences; training of regional & pastoral leaders in ethiopia, burundi, congo, rwanda, uganda, kenya & tanzania; tribal/community acceptance training
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - Most voting board members are independent and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 54.4%; rating input score 54
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 0.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54% of revenue deployed · 54.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $36K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 54/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.