Ukraine Partnership Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274595107
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chesterfield, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3149524449
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,246,707
- Expenses
- $4,481,567
- Assets
- $6,447,883
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- WILBUR J PRIVOTT (CHAIR & DIRECTOR)
- JOSEPH C EASON (VICE CHAIR & DIRECTOR)
- JEFFREY KLOPFENSTEIN (VICE CHAIR & DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support, encourage and foster training and development of christian leaders and organizations and to support humanitarian relief and related mission projects initially focusing on ukraine.
What it reported doing in 2025
Financial and advisory support provided to the ukrainian baptist theological seminary (located in lviv, ukraine) for the training and development of students at the seminary. Information regarding the seminary can be found at http://upfmission.org. Grants include $1,833,768 in operating support for the seminary and $1,229,000 for the construction of a new seminary building and campus. Grants for operating support of the seminary furthered the education and development of over 3,400 students enrolled at the seminary during 2025. Due to the ongoing war in ukraine, grants of $1,274,072 for humanitarian aid to support over 20 wecare centers throughout ukraine was also provided.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $188.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Pass
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.6%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.6% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.