PETROS NETWORK
Share - Show - Spread Redemptive Lift
PETROS NETWORK
EIN: 45-4131862
as of September 2023
as of September 18, 2023
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Transformational Leadership Development
Petros Network equips transformational community leaders — missionary church planters, business, and government leaders — to bring about holistic, lasting change.
Empowering Women
Petros Network designed Petros Network Women to ignite a spark of hope in the hearts of at-risk women (with children) through life and job skills training, leadership development, and micro-loans or meaningful work.
Agriculture and Food Distribution
Petros Network agricultural initiatives include personal, community, and school gardens, and animal husbandry. Our focus is on creating sustainability in a rural community. We also offer some disaster and relief work among the communities we serve.
Educating Out of Poverty
Petros Network supports the education of children, leadership development, small business training, and a Bible Diploma Program. Petros Network provides a non-formal certificate program
Clean Water
Petros Network supplies tools for clean water and participates with strategic partners to drill wells in rural communities where churches and schools have been planted
Medical Relief
Petros Network leads volunteer medical and dental teams to provide in-country care as well as mentoring of indigenous professionals. We also run a medium-sized medical clinic in Jeldu, Ethiopia.
Bibles, Leadership Tools, Curriculum
Petros Network provides transformational leadership tools, Bibles, and discipleship curriculum for holistic impact.
Child Sponsorship and Children's Feeding Initiatives
Protecting children is one of Petros Network's Redemptive Lift strategies for transforming a village. Working through local churches and schools we have found child sponsorship and children's feeding initiatives to be an effective means for alleviating the chronic cycle of poverty and providing children HOPE for a better future.
Building Character Through Sports
Petros Network uses sports to build the self-esteem of children and youth. Through clinics and competitive events, children receive skill development and life skill training in good sportsmanship and getting along with others.
HOPE Builders
HOPE Builders provides leadership and hands-on construction expertise to pastors, missionaries, churches and other non-profits for mission-critical building projects in an international context. Projects can include schools, churches, medical facilities, orphanages, and other similar mission-critical building projects. International construction can be quite complex and costly, but it doesn't have to be! Depending on the specific needs of each building project, HOPE Builders considers best practices in building construction, the mission purpose of the construction, as well as the most affordable, sustainable and accessible products for our building partners. This assures buildings are built correctly within the given cultural context, dollars are stretched, and donor accountability requirements are met and God's name is glorified.
Where we work
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Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We equip and empower indigenous leaders to be the spiritual and physical solution for their rural communities.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
With the help of our passionate partners, we have the following accomplishments.
CHURCH PLANTING:
- As of December 2023, we have shared the Gospel with 6.3 million people, planted 7000+ churches, and have 1.5 million adherents.
- We provide General Assembly training 2-times a year and regional training every quarter. Efforts are onsite and in-country.
- We have trained over 8000 leaders in Transformational Leadership.
COMPASSION AND CARE:
- Over 500 women have been trained in leadership and small business skills. 250 have received microgrants.
- 150 Orphans are cared for daily.
- 1030 Children are fed daily
- We have helped to build 4 primary and secondary schools.
- We have built a Medium-size Medical Clinic that services 20,000 patients a year.
- We have built a Women's vocational center.
- We have built a Guest House for our international teams
- We have launched farming and animal husbandry efforts for sustainability: piggery, goats, cows, bees, rabbits, farming in multiple countries.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
Revenue vs. expenses: breakdown
Liquidity in 2021 info
446054.62
Months of cash in 2021 info
28
Fringe rate in 2021 info
12%
Funding sources info
Assets & liabilities info
Financial data
PETROS NETWORK
Balance sheetFiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
The balance sheet gives a snapshot of the financial health of an organization at a particular point in time. An organization's total assets should generally exceed its total liabilities, or it cannot survive long, but the types of assets and liabilities must also be considered. For instance, an organization's current assets (cash, receivables, securities, etc.) should be sufficient to cover its current liabilities (payables, deferred revenue, current year loan, and note payments). Otherwise, the organization may face solvency problems. On the other hand, an organization whose cash and equivalents greatly exceed its current liabilities might not be putting its money to best use.
Fiscal Year: Jan 01 - Dec 31
This snapshot of PETROS NETWORK’s financial trends applies Nonprofit Finance Fund® analysis to data hosted by GuideStar. While it highlights the data that matter most, remember that context is key – numbers only tell part of any story.
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Business model indicators
Profitability info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Unrestricted surplus (deficit) before depreciation | $1,861,429 | $102,749 | $941,230 | $1,058,045 | $821,163 |
As % of expenses | 343.4% | 18.8% | 165.6% | 173.8% | 56.1% |
Unrestricted surplus (deficit) after depreciation | $1,861,429 | $102,749 | $941,230 | $1,054,193 | $813,523 |
As % of expenses | 343.4% | 18.8% | 165.6% | 172.1% | 55.3% |
Revenue composition info | |||||
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Total revenue (unrestricted & restricted) | $2,403,553 | $649,541 | $1,509,468 | $1,666,782 | $2,376,782 |
Total revenue, % change over prior year | 54.2% | -73.0% | 132.4% | 10.4% | 42.6% |
Program services revenue | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Membership dues | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Investment income | 0.6% | 2.6% | 21.0% | 20.1% | 0.0% |
Government grants | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
All other grants and contributions | 99.4% | 97.4% | 79.0% | 79.9% | 100.0% |
Other revenue | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Expense composition info | |||||
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Total expenses before depreciation | $542,124 | $546,792 | $568,238 | $608,737 | $1,463,365 |
Total expenses, % change over prior year | 0.0% | 0.9% | 3.9% | 7.1% | 140.4% |
Personnel | 8.8% | 10.2% | 9.8% | 28.4% | 31.0% |
Professional fees | 1.7% | 6.6% | 7.5% | 1.1% | 0.0% |
Occupancy | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.4% | 4.9% | 2.5% |
Interest | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Pass-through | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
All other expenses | 89.5% | 83.2% | 82.3% | 65.6% | 66.6% |
Full cost components (estimated) info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Total expenses (after depreciation) | $542,124 | $546,792 | $568,238 | $612,589 | $1,471,005 |
One month of savings | $45,177 | $45,566 | $47,353 | $50,728 | $121,947 |
Debt principal payment | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Fixed asset additions | $0 | $0 | $0 | $46,405 | $0 |
Total full costs (estimated) | $587,301 | $592,358 | $615,591 | $709,722 | $1,592,952 |
Capital structure indicators
Liquidity info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Months of cash | 85.5 | 6.3 | 20.9 | 30.4 | 28.0 |
Months of cash and investments | 85.5 | 69.2 | 70.0 | 75.7 | 47.4 |
Months of estimated liquid unrestricted net assets | 86.5 | 87.3 | 103.9 | 116.9 | 55.4 |
Balance sheet composition info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Cash | $3,864,790 | $289,021 | $989,312 | $1,544,017 | $3,415,346 |
Investments | $0 | $2,864,633 | $2,323,483 | $2,296,710 | $2,363,364 |
Receivables | $31,778 | $156,639 | $88,458 | $45,000 | $20,000 |
Gross land, buildings, equipment (LBE) | $0 | $30,000 | $30,000 | $76,404 | $78,572 |
Accumulated depreciation (as a % of LBE) | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 5.0% | 14.8% |
Liabilities (as a % of assets) | 0.6% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
Unrestricted net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Temporarily restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Permanently restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Total restricted net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Total net assets | $3,906,913 | $4,009,662 | $4,950,892 | $6,005,085 | $6,818,608 |
Key data checks
Key data checks info | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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Material data errors | No | No | No | No | No |
Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
Documents
Founder and CEO
Ray M. Noah
www.linkedin.com/in/raynoah
Co-Founder, Executive Director
Linda Noah
www.linkedin.com/in/lindanoah
Number of employees
Source: IRS Form 990
PETROS NETWORK
Officers, directors, trustees, and key employeesSOURCE: IRS Form 990
Compensation data
There are no highest paid employees recorded for this organization.
PETROS NETWORK
Board of directorsas of 09/27/2023
Board of directors data
Ray Noah
Portland Christian Center
Term: 2012 -
Sam Thannikal
Paragon Payroll & HR, Inc.
Ron Stokes
Portland Christian Center
Ray Noah
Petros Network
Linda Noah
Petros Network
Stan Noah
Retired
Vik Rajagopal
FaithLife
Doug Resler
Parker Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Doug MacLardy
Doug MacLardy, CPFA,Columbia Associates Wealth Management Group
Ron Cochran
Sunriver Vacations
Krista Johnson
Shell USA
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Disability
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.