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MERCY SHIPS INTERNATIONAL

EIN 26-2414132 LINDALE, TX

Revenue 2025
$250,375,032
Expenses 2025
$191,394,677

Program services were 78.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2020

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BERT VAN DIJK

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DON STEPHENS

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $350,000
    From this org
    $350,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $350,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $350,000

  • GARY BROWN

    CHAIRMAN/ Interim CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • GERT VAN DE WEERDHOF

    CEO END:03/25

    Total calculated
    $230,802
    From this org
    $218,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,177
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $100,780
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $117,845
    Deferred
    $6,197
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,980
    Filer's total
    $230,802

  • JAN VAN DEN BOSCH

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PETER B SCHULZE

    TREASURER/ Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 2 related

  • THOMAS LATKOVIC

    VICE CHAIRMAN END: 06/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANN GLOAG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DANIEL SHELLEY

    DIRECTOR START: 06/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR BERTHA AYI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR CARRIE TIBBLES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR EDWIN STEPHEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR LOIC PFISTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR MICHAEL SPENCE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR MICHELLE WHITE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FILIP RYGG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GARY BELVIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GILBERT WALTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • GUY WADE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3 + 2 related

  • JAMES F COPPENS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JANEEN UZZELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LOIS BOYLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LUCY QUIST

    DIRECTOR END: 06/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PHD MICHAEL LINDSAY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PHD RONALD L GOODE

    DIRECTOR END: 06/25

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $250,375,032
    Expenses
    $191,394,677
    Contributions
    $248,243,749
    Grants paid
    $12,315,701
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $287,144,079
    Expenses
    $157,056,453
    Contributions
    $284,383,021
    Grants paid
    $2,656,586
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $155,091,550
    Expenses
    $145,692,310
    Contributions
    $153,707,243
    Grants paid
    $2,772,232
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $133,883,712
    Expenses
    $136,875,817
    Contributions
    $133,759,038
    Grants paid
    $16,353,671

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $733,261 raised

    2024 Commercial Fundraiser

    $626,599 to charity

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $526,689 raised

    2023 Commercial Fundraiser

    $329,484 to charity

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $451,381 raised

    2022 Commercial Fundraiser

    $265,072 to charity

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $522,425 raised

    2021 Commercial Fundraiser

    $329,740 to charity

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $126,454 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    $122,156 to charity

  • DVCANVASS LLC

    $1,660 raised

    2020 Commercial Fundraiser

    -$18,530 to charity

  • GATEWAY COMMUNICATIONS INC

    $225,744 raised

    2019 Commercial Fundraiser

    $151,519 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.