Training Beyond Borders Nfp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030570793
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wheaton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6306213335
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $182,968
- Expenses
- $184,456
- Assets
- $93,847
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DUANE ABUHL (PRESIDENT)
- JANET ABUHL (VICE-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DUANE ABUHL (PRESIDENT)
- JANET ABUHL (VICE-PRESIDENT)
- JULIE MYERS (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
To provide training, educational material and resources to people in developing countries throughout the world to help strengthen their communities. In vanuatu; teaching personal leadership skills, family planning and business management to a variety of people.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided skills and guidance to strengthen relationships with remote island leaders. Our time together provided an opportunity to ship sewingsupplies, clothes, books and many other supplies to these islands.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.4%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 18.2%; rating input score 18
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.4% of revenue deployed · 18.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 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 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.