Transforming the Bay with Christ

What it reported doing in 2024

In fiscal year 20242025, transforming the bay with christ (tbc) advanced its mission to unite churches, serve communities, and share the gospel across the san francisco bay area. Through over 50 pastoral networks representing 800 churches, tbc hosted major leadership gatherings (ascent and base camp), launched new regional networks in the east bay, solano, and monterey counties, and expanded collaborations addressing poverty, foster care, and disaster response. Its multiply initiative continued to fund and equip church plants and strengthen evangelism partnerships, while new horizons projects with harvard, oxford, and gloo advanced research and innovation at the intersection of faith, work, and technology. Fiscal year 20242025 program accomplishments overview transforming the bay with christ (tbc) is a regional movement of churches and faith-based organizations working together to see every person in the san francisco bay area experience the life-changing power of jesus. Now in its twelfth year, tbc serves eleven counties and more than 800 churches through strategic initiatives designed to unify pastors, amplify collaboration, multiply churches, and advance new horizons of innovation and faith-work integration. In 2024 tbc launched phase 3: increasing our impact, a multi-year plan expanding regional leadership, strengthening networks, and deepening evangelistic reach across the bay area. Unify connecting and equipping pastors across the bay area tbc currently supports more than 50 regional pastoral networks representing over 800 churches. Through two annual offsites: base camp (fall) and ascent (spring), network leaders gather for encouragement, training, and shared vision. Base camp introduced a hackathon format to help leaders co-design solutions for regional kingdom impact, while ascent brought 70 pastors together for three days of spiritual renewal and collaborative planning. Tbc also expanded into new network deserts, launching regional networks in the east bay, solano county, and monterey county, and hosting a planning gathering for the black pastors network. Ongoing communication to network leaders continued through tbcs monthly email, 3 minutes with tbc. Amplify mobilizing compassion and collaboration the amplify initiative connected hundreds of churches and non-profits to address needs in foster care, poverty alleviation, education, and disaster response. Key 202425 highlights included: poverty pockets partnerships: three peninsula coalitions of local churches formed to serve underserved neighborhoods such as north fair oaks and mountain views buena vista. Foster care collaboratives: expanded in the north bay and south bay, with leaders convening faith communities and county officials to recruit families and support children in care. Disaster response team: launched a bay area disaster response leadership network with 4 regional directors and 4 hub churches, establishing an hour-by-hour activation plan for crisis response. Bearing witness training: a four-week series at lords grace church equipped leaders to engage poverty with biblical wisdom and practical action tbc team page .through these efforts, tbc continued to serve as a bridge between churches and civic leaders, strengthening the churchs public witness of compassion and collaboration. Multiply advancing church planting and evangelism tbcs multiply initiative accelerated church growth and evangelistic collaboration through partnerships with the stratum foundation and bay area church planting network. This year, tbc helped launch new church plants and continued to resource existing planters through training, grant funding, and a new church planting collaboration forum that connects pastors and investors. Planning began for a bay area-wide evangelism initiative in 2026, building on the success of explore god bay area (2023). Multiply also continued its focus on faith and work integration through oxford and ceo forum courses and the development of the bay area ce

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 65%; rating input score 65
• Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: $42.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 19.1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 58.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings