Pacific Island Ministries, Inc. 
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Summary
Pacific Island Ministries, Inc. ("PIM") is a discipling and training mission. The primary avenue by which the ministry conducts its operations is through missionary education in Papua New Guinea. Specifically this is done through educational and vocational training of indigenous controlled schools of mission. PIM works in remote areas promoting the knowledge of Scripture and obedience to its mandate. PIM's programs provide the following: sponsorship of schools, Bible education, adult training courses, the supply of Christian educational materials, community development, health services, the installation of clean water systems, program support activities, the training of nationals for their continued expansion, and presenting North Americans with the needs. PIM operates largely in rural Papua New Guinea, in the upper Sepik Basin and in the Waria Valley. PIM is related to Pacific Ministries Developments by identical boards (funds are segregated according to source and purpose) and affiliated with Pacific Island Ministries (Canada). This organization is a nonprofit, contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
Contact information
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 1765
Grass Valley, CA 95945-1765
Website: www.piministries.org
Phone: (530) 272-8170
Email: piministries@ncws.com
Organization details
EIN: 942453418
CEO/President: Mr. Douglas Heidema
Chairman: Mr Robert Van Sprosen
Board size: 15
Founder: Mr. Orneal Kooyers
Year founded: 1977
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 06/30
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 1980
Purpose
Pacific Island Ministries, Inc. ("PIM") is a discipling and training mission. The primary avenue by which the ministry conducts its operations is through missionary education in Papua New Guinea. Specifically this is done through educational and vocational training of indigenous controlled schools of mission. PIM works in remote areas promoting the knowledge of Scripture and obedience to its mandate. PIM's programs provide the following: sponsorship of schools, Bible education, adult training courses, the supply of Christian educational materials, community development, health services, the installation of clean water systems, program support activities, the training of nationals for their continued expansion, and presenting North Americans with the needs. PIM operates largely in rural Papua New Guinea, in the upper Sepik Basin and in the Waria Valley, however it also fosters development of indigenous Christian leadership elsewhere, especially in third world countries, using its publications promoting Biblical principles. PIM is related to Pacific Ministries Developments by identical boards (funds are segregated according to source and purpose) and affiliated with Pacific Island Ministries (Canada).
This organization is a nonprofit, contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
Mission statement
Pacific Island Ministries expresses its purpose statement as follows:
Pacific Island Ministries is a discipling, training mission with special interest in Papua New Guinea where the mission pioneers in remote areas promoting the knowledge of Scripture and obedience to its mandates through sponsorship of schools, Bible education, adult training courses, the supply of Christian educational materials, community development, health services, the installation of clean water systems, the support activities making these possible, the training of nationals for their continued expansion, and presenting North Americans with the needs. PIM also fosters development of indigenous Christian leadership elsewhere, especially in third world countries, among the disadvantaged, using its publications promoting Biblical principles.
Statement of faith
Pacific Island Ministries expresses its statement of faith as follows:
The Scriptures, the Bible, are the Word of God and divinely inspired, true and absolutely trustworthy; therefore they have authority over everyone's life in every respect.
God exists as the one eternal God, Creator and Lord of the universe, who, in the unity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, governs all things according to His will and accomplishes His purposes in the world and in the church.
Man has fallen from fellowship with God by the disobedience of man's first parents Adam and Eve, and, therefore, suffers in a depraved state in need of regeneration and sanctification by the Holy Spirit.
God intervened in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who being born of a virgin, made atonement for man's sins by his death and the shedding of blood on the cross, rose bodily again on the third day, to ascend and to rule at the right hand of the Father.
Only by repentance and believing that his personal sins are forgiven in Christ's sacrifice is man restored by grace to communion with God and has the power in the person of the Holy Spirit to be transformed into God's likeness.
Christ will return when God's purposes are completed to raise both the righteous and the unrighteous for judgment to reward and to punish man according to his works.
God grants everlasting life and glorious, eternal fellowship for those who are saved, and assigns eternal punishment to those who are not.
Transparency grade
C
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Evangelism Support
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 40 of 817 | 4 of 48 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 79 of 817 | 4 of 48 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 181 of 817 | 9 of 48 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 87 of 817 | 6 of 48 |
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 5% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 5% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 97% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 99% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 5% | 1% | 1% | 2% | 2% | 1% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 83% | 91% | 90% | 89% | 90% | 92% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 96% | 88% | 98% | 98% | 108% | 93% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 81% | 80% | 89% | 88% | 97% | 86% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 4% | 12% | 2% | 2% | -8% | 7% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 6% | 68% | 27% | 41% | -247% | 92% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 10% | 8% | 9% | 9% | 8% | 6% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.34 | 4.76 | 13.22 | 13.93 | 20.13 | 11.12 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.28 | 1.01 | 1.02 | 1.03 | 1.03 | 1.02 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.19 | 4.80 | 13.49 | 14.28 | 20.83 | 11.28 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 19.99 | 18.96 | 5.28 | 3.62 | 2.36 | 10.50 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.19 | 0.28 | 0.42 | 0.10 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 5.13 | 2.37 | 0.72 | 0.61 | 0.33 | 0.96 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 5% | 5% | 19% | 27% | 41% | 9% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 69% | 20% | 6% | 5% | 3% | 8% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
| Cash | $92,169 | $33,902 | $25,551 | $18,055 | $42,151 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $0 | $0 | $1,800 | $1,800 | $3,600 |
| Short-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $92,169 | $33,902 | $27,351 | $19,855 | $45,751 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term assets | $692 | $692 | $692 | $692 | $692 |
| Total long-term assets | $692 | $692 | $692 | $692 | $692 |
| Total assets | $92,861 | $34,594 | $28,043 | $20,547 | $46,443 |
| Liabilities | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $4,861 | $6,425 | $7,556 | $8,425 | $4,356 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $4,861 | $6,425 | $7,556 | $8,425 | $4,356 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $4,861 | $6,425 | $7,556 | $8,425 | $4,356 |
| Net assets | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
| Unrestricted | $88,000 | $28,169 | $20,487 | $12,122 | $42,087 |
| Temporarily restricted | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Permanently restricted | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Net assets | $88,000 | $28,169 | $20,487 | $12,122 | $42,087 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
| Total contributions | $501,904 | $464,961 | $398,899 | $383,655 | $551,568 |
| Program service revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other revenue | $4 | $74 | $76 | $0 | $3,600 |
| Total other revenue | $4 | $74 | $76 | $0 | $3,600 |
| Total revenue | $501,908 | $465,035 | $398,975 | $383,655 | $555,168 |
| Expenses | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
| Program services | $403,567 | $413,416 | $349,280 | $373,200 | $476,773 |
| Management and general | $35,004 | $40,038 | $35,310 | $33,706 | $33,438 |
| Fundraising | $3,506 | $3,899 | $6,020 | $6,714 | $6,085 |
| Total expenses | $442,077 | $457,353 | $390,610 | $413,620 | $516,296 |
| Change in net assets | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $59,831 | $7,682 | $8,365 | ($29,965) | $38,872 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $59,831 | $7,682 | $8,365 | ($29,965) | $38,872 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Douglas Heidema | President Field | $70,121 |
| Nicholas Schering | President USA | $55,863 |
Compensation data as of: 6/30/2019
Response from ministry
Letter from Orneal Kooyers - February 25th, 2005
Enclosed is the information you request. Also enclosed is our bill for provided the material. In addition, I request you attach the following information with any information you send out to donors regarding this mission.
We do not believe that Wall Watchers accomplishes any worthwhile purpose in assessing and making known information about Pacific Island Ministries for the following reasons.
- Donors and any one else can contact PIM for any information whatsoever and it will be supplied.
- Wall Watchers does not have the foggiest notion of what PIM accomplishes in its God given assignment.
- From a few figures submitted to the proper authorities Wall Watchers draws its own biased conclusions that suit their particular ideology.
- The Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability, of which PIM is a charter member, is wholly sufficient to assess the doings and accomplishments of PIM.
The information below was provided to MinistryWatch by the ministry itself. It was last updated 11/12/2019. To update the information below, please email: info@ministrywatch.com
History
Pacific Island Ministries was established by Neal and Martha Kooyers and a group of West Coast Christians as a nonprofit and tax-exempt corporation on December 16, 1977. It was originally called Sepik Christian Akademies, Inc., and was intended for the purpose of supporting Christian missionary activities in Papua New Guinea. The corporation's name was changed to Pacific Island Ministries, Inc. on August 27, 1981.
Pacific Island Ministries, Inc. is a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), and has continued as a member since 1980.
(From the PIMI - Notes to the Financial Statement, July 31, 1999)