International Care Ministries 
The information on this page was last updated 10/27/2025. If you see errors or omissions, please email: [email protected]
Summary
We look forward to a day when no child has to live in ultra-poverty. Since 1992, ICM has been providing help, inspiring hope, and creating change for families living in extreme poverty in the Philippines.
Contact information
Mailing address:
International Care Ministries
491 A1A Beach Blvd
St. Augustine, FL 32080
Website: caremin.com
Phone: 973-216-8761
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 911886289
CEO/President: David Sutherland
Chairman: David Sutherland
Board size: 9
Founder: Filipino pastors
Ruling year: 1999
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 05/31
Member of ECFA: No
Member of ECFA since:
Purpose
Vision: Ultra-poor families released from physical, emotional, and spiritual bondage
At ICM we combine the best practices of the business and academic worlds with the passion and heart of a faith-based non-profit. ICM serves the ultra-poor in the Visayas and Mindanao from 12 regional bases:
1. Palawan
2. Kalibo
3. Iloilo
4. Bacolod
5. Dumaguete
6. Cebu
7. Bohol
8. Tacloban
9. Dipolog
10. Koronadal
11. General Santos
12. Davao
Mission statement
Deliver the right support, right training, and right resources to unlock the bondages of poverty.
Statement of faith
Donor confidence score
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Transparency grade
C
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Foreign Missions
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 94 of 1435 | 11 of 126 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 536 of 1435 | 52 of 126 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 214 of 1435 | 17 of 126 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 4 of 1436 | 1 of 126 |
According to the organization's Form 990, it received $24,174 in government grants in 2025.
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 10% | 4% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 10% | 4% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 98% | 100% | 99% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 5% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 9% | 4% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 2% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 85% | 93% | 92% | 95% | 90% | 95% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 99% | 100% | 98% | 106% | 107% | 98% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 83% | 93% | 91% | 101% | 96% | 93% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 1% | 0% | 2% | -6% | -7% | 2% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 3% | 16% | 87% | -2566% | -78% | 17% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 9% | 3% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 1% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.59 | 7.00 | 5.19 | 5.92 | 6.22 | 3.94 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.14 | 28.06 | 23.57 | 9.32 | 2.00 | 1.73 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.42 | 196.32 | 122.32 | 55.17 | 12.45 | 6.82 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 22.36 | 0.31 | 0.18 | 0.23 | 1.00 | 1.37 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.03 | 3.18 | 5.70 | 4.37 | 1.00 | 0.73 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 4.85 | -0.13 | -0.46 | -0.73 | 0.00 | 0.47 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 4% | 84% | 88% | 99% | 50% | 42% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 73% | 64% | 52% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 57% | 2% | 2% | 0% | 8% | 15% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Cash | $49,115 | $66,390 | $207,033 | $654,651 | $1,159,120 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $0 | $0 | $0 | $46 | $7,887 |
| Short-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $49,115 | $66,390 | $207,033 | $654,697 | $1,167,007 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term assets | $1,328,840 | $1,498,570 | $1,721,590 | $655,906 | $852,466 |
| Total long-term assets | $1,328,840 | $1,498,570 | $1,721,590 | $655,906 | $852,466 |
| Total assets | $1,377,955 | $1,564,960 | $1,928,623 | $1,310,603 | $2,019,473 |
| Liabilities | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $156,058 | $128,580 | $654,066 | $655,906 | $852,466 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $250,000 | $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $156,058 | $378,580 | $904,066 | $655,906 | $852,466 |
| Debt | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $1,156,058 | $1,378,580 | $1,904,066 | $655,906 | $852,466 |
| Net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Without donor restrictions | $221,897 | $186,380 | $24,557 | $404,697 | $967,007 |
| With donor restrictions | $0 | $0 | $0 | $250,000 | $200,000 |
| Net assets | $221,897 | $186,380 | $24,557 | $654,697 | $1,167,007 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Total contributions | $9,699,842 | $8,237,541 | $10,792,694 | $7,635,749 | $8,165,797 |
| Program service revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $58,953 | $72,815 | $121 | $347 | $301 |
| Other revenue | ($80,892) | ($27,787) | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total other revenue | ($21,939) | $45,028 | $121 | $347 | $301 |
| Total revenue | $9,677,903 | $8,282,569 | $10,792,815 | $7,636,096 | $8,166,098 |
| Expenses | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Program services | $8,967,971 | $7,500,860 | $10,888,159 | $7,338,700 | $7,582,601 |
| Management and general | $254,375 | $258,270 | $67,686 | $79,258 | $46,192 |
| Fundraising | $420,040 | $361,616 | $467,110 | $730,448 | $335,439 |
| Total expenses | $9,642,386 | $8,120,746 | $11,422,955 | $8,148,406 | $7,964,232 |
| Change in net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $35,517 | $161,823 | ($630,140) | ($512,310) | $201,866 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $35,517 | $161,823 | ($630,140) | ($512,310) | $201,866 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| David Jones | Chief Development & Finance Officer | $187,801 |
| Melinda Mijares Kelly | Chief Health Officer | $120,000 |
| Shelley Trebesch | Managing Director/Chief of Staff | $120,000 |
Compensation data as of: 5/31/2025
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History
In 1992, a group of passionate Filipino pastors were moved by the extreme poverty they saw everyday in their home city of Bacolod, Philippines. They started feeding and handing out medicines, and International Care Ministries was born. The new organization received strategic direction and funding from Hong Kong through Sharon Tan (who now runs an organisation in Dumaguete) and soon expanded to work in several provinces in the southern two-thirds of the Philippines.
Decades later, several of the founding pastors - Jacqueline Banasing, John Enguana, and Jonathan Sanchez - are still part of our local leadership. ICM now employs several hundred Filipinos who have reached more than one million people with holistic transformation.
David Sutherland, Chair of the ICM Board, has worked with ICM for the past twenty years. With decades of corporate experience, David is passionate about bringing best practice from the business world to ICM.
Program accomplishments
Together, we have brought 1 million impoverished Filipinos transformation in every area of life.