Vine and Branches Global Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204592050
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Peoria, AZ, USA
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137,354
- Expenses
- $129,595
- Assets
- $62,218
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- James Hayes (Director)
- Cheryl Whitemore (Financial Secretary)
- Julie Lamca (board member)
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
VABGM exists to provide resources for churches and ministries in the US and around the world who are starting churches and impacting families. Especially families with at risk children. It is our desire to help with resources for their programs as they meet the needs of families and children in their communities. We come along side of churches and ministries that have orphanages and or homes for abused abandoned or orphaned children; providing for their general welfare education and health needs.
What it reported doing in 2025
ASante Sana Childrens Home and Daily Bread MInistries in Iringa Tanzania. Mpeli and Neema M. are the directors. Under their care they over see 35+ children at Asante Sana where they provide a home shelter clothes education and welfare for the children. Under their leadership 100 plus pastors in the bush foster orphans in their communities.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.1%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 51%; rating input score 51
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: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.1% of revenue deployed · 51% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 9 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.