Train Them 2 Fish International Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475343565
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Fletcher, NC, USA
Phone
5017019758
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$141,031
Expenses
$211,392
Assets
$63,495
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Luke Fisher (Vice President)
  • George Lee (President)

People named in this filing

  • Satyanarayana Ramella (Treasurer)
  • Brenda Pace (Secretary)
  • Luke Fisher (Vice President)

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

Evangelism, medical care, and training in Democratic Republic of Congo.

What it reported doing in 2025

Service Provided in 2025: Training Center campus development: Multipurpose building and additional classrooms construction launched, Guest house completed, cafeteria building roofed and paved, campus septic/sewer system completed, power to the campus service paid off with all material on the campus. Water provided. Lay Missionary annual meeting organized. Dental workshop organized on the campus; the campus used as the venue hosting the Lower Congo Conference camp meeting. Land taxes paid for the next 25 years to secure our campus. Number of people who benefited were 308 people accommodated in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.2%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 62.8%; rating input score 63

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -49.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 30.5% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.2% of revenue deployed · 62.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $133K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.