Wildfire Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821705217
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2104525532
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $242,456
- Expenses
- $319,222
- Assets
- $126,264
- Liabilities
- $-313
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chris Taylor Rogers (President, Executive Director)
- Ashley Elizabeth Rogers (Vice President, Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Chris Taylor Rogers (President, Executive Director): $54,770 total reported compensation
- Gabrielle Michelle Leonard (Secretary, Director, Coaching & Training Director): $9,029 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of this corporation is: Make God's dreams come true through others by inviting individuals to live in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. Empower God's people to transform their neighborhoods and the nations by establishing and sustaining mentoring relationships, developing and delivering training programs and events, and publishing and producing creative and effective resources. Cultivate a fearless culture of radical love, dependence on the Spirit of God, contagious joy, sincere humility, complete honesty, and apostolic faith, by passing on the values of the Gospel of Jesus. Forge diverse local and global partnerships. Wildfire Network is organized exclusively for charitable, and religious purposes. including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
What it reported doing in 2024
General Unrestricted. Our centralized support services comprised one of the largest and most impactful programs carried out by the organization. Through our central services hub at 4411 Walzem Road STE 208, we hosted 24 sessions of the Wildfire Cohort to incubate and launch new grassroots missions. We also used the conference room to provide crucial personalized coaching to mission leaders to help them navigate crisis and remain in their field. 2 Podcasts utilized the recording room at the HUB to share Christ Centered content to the world, Returning to Joy and Along the Way. In short, our central services HUB provided meaningful programming content and location for empowering missional leaders within our network. Financial Network Services to support the ministries that are formally connected to the network. in 2024 We had a team that provided financial services to 7 missions within the network. This included budget development, training for documentation using automated receipt keeper system, accurate record keeping through quickbooks online, access to online donation services - free of any fees or charge to the missions that use them. The costs include the contract payments to our finance team, as well as the required subscription services necessary to maintain our websites, as well as the fees that were covered in their entirety by the general budget of the network so that the missions could maximize their impact.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $74.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 4.7%; rating input score 5; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -31.7%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 20%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.4% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $229K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $55K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 44 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 5/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.