Frontier Harvest Ministries
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Mobilize prayerwalking, Christian missionary education and church planting.
- Income
- $281,510
- Spending
- $460,030
- Spent on programs
- 100%
- Reserves
- 9 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
- Employees
- 1
- Volunteers
- 20
- Highest pay
- $41,200, president
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Fair: 63 out of 100. Higher than 32% of charities in its peer group (religion, $250k to $1m).
Reserves
28 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 9.0 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 0% of what it owns.
Living within its means
0 of 15Spending exceeded income by 63% of income.
Income trend
0 of 15Income fell 71% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 15100% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Weak: 46 out of 100. Higher than 25% of charities in its peer group (religion, $250k to $1m).
Independent board
25 of 256 of 8 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
0 of 15Reports no written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
0 of 8Reports no written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
0 of 7Reports no written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
0 of 10Did not give the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
0 of 5Reports no independent review process for its chief executive's pay.
Independent check of accounts
6 of 15Its accounts were not audited or reviewed by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- $460,030 spent. Frontier Harvest Ministries (FHM) has spent the last 40 years engaged in evangelism, Gospel literature distribution, church planting among unreached tribal peoples, leadership development, Bible training, humanitarian outreach, and disaster relief throughout Asia FHM currently serves a growing network of over 400 churches representing more than 50,000 believers across multiple nations and ethnic groups. In China, FHM has helped bring the Gospel to 56 previously unreached ethnic people groups and is now actively working among 161 additional unreached and unengaged groups through initiatives such as The Quest and the Hidden Ethnic Initiative, bringing the total number of ethnic people groups engaged to 217. During 2025, ministry teams traveled over 70,000 kilometers throughout remote regions of Asia, sending workers to more than 150 unreached people groups and establishing over 60 new Homes of Peace among 43 newly engaged groups for future church planting and discipleship efforts. In Myanmar, FHM continued church planting, humanitarian aid, and disaster relief efforts, including the operation of six house churches in Mandalay, assistance with childrens homes and ministry facilities, feeding over 5,000 people in 2025, and responding to the March 2025 earthquake with emergency relief. Since 2018, FHM has built over 200 shelters, distributed more than 4,000 care packages, and impacted over 30,000 people through evangelism and outreach ministries. In Vietnam, FHM continued serving alongside a network of churches and leaders representing 12 minority people groups while organizing leadership training, mission trips, Christian literature distribution, and micro-business projects to support local ministers and expand Gospel outreach outreach among unreached communities. FHM also assisted families through chicken coop and animal husbandry projects designed to help sustain local ministers and strengthen long-term ministry efforts in rural communities.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since December 2001.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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