Worldwide Educational Tours Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
844945512
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Bakersfield, CA, USA
Phone
6613048394
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other
Affiliation
Judaism

Reported finances

Revenue
$84,545
Expenses
$97,888
Assets
$74,305
Liabilities
$4,765

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Elias Abdallah (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Elias Abdallah (CEO)
  • Stephanie Abdallah (Secretary)
  • Kristi Schwisow (CFO)

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

We are a nonprofit tour company that focuses on educating passengers during its tours. We specialize in 10 days study tours to Israel but also offer extension tours to Petra & Egypt. During these tours, our guides (all have graduated from a 3-year college in Israel with a certification in educating tourists) accompany our passengers for the entire trip and extensively teach from the Bible, The Torah and many historical books. We offer wholesale pricing to our passengers that is many times hundreds or even thousands less than our competition.

What it reported doing in 2025

Despite the ongoing conflict in Israel, Worldwide Educational Tours, Inc. was able to conduct one tour to Israel in 2025, with several more tours planned in the next few years. Due to the ongoing conflict, many churches and groups are still hesitant to visit the region, with many groups postponing their trips until late 2026 or even 2027 for safety purposes. To organize an international trip of this magnitude, particularly for large groups, it can take a minimum of one to two years to plan, depending on the circumstances.We hope to schedule more tours and regain more traction as the conflict in the Middle East hopefully comes to an end in the near future.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. 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: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 56.2%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 48.6%; rating input score 49

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -58.6% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -63.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -47.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 56.2% of revenue deployed · 48.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 49/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.