Giving FAQ's

Yes, you can give via your bank’s online bill pay. Please make sure that the check is made payable to Ethnos360 and includes your name and address and that the missionary’s name and/or ministry account number are on the bill pay when it is sent to our office. There are no additional fees for using online bill pay. Send to:  Ethnos360, 312 W First St, Sanford, FL 32771-1231.

Please note that you must be logged into an account to set up a recurring gift, or to make changes to you recurring giving.

• To stop a gift: Log into "My Giving Account" and click "Stop" next to the gift you wish to stop.
• To change the amount you are giving: Log into "My Giving Account" and set up the gift again, but with the new amount. This will override your current gift.
• To add a missionary or project to your monthly giving: Log into "My Giving Account" and set up the gift. It will be automatically added to your current gifts.

If you have any questions or problems with your recurring gifts, please contact our Finance Office financeUSA@ntm.org or call toll-free during East Coast business hours at 407-547-2345.

If you need to update your credit or debit card's expiration date, log into "My Giving Account" and locate your card. Click on "Edit" and update the expiration date.

If you have a new credit card with new numbers, you can set that up over the phone. Call our Finance Office, toll-free, during East Coast business hours, at 407-547-2345.

All gifts to Ethnos360 for support of missionaries and projects are tax-deductible. As required by the IRS, gifts should be given with the understanding that they are under the full discretion and control of Ethnos360.

You may also make non-tax-deductible personal gifts for a birthday, Christmas or an anniversary. See the next question ("Can I make personal gifts?") for details.

Also, gifts to students at the Missionary Training Center and to participants in Interface are not tax-deductible. The IRS allows deductions for charitable purposes, not for educational purposes.

All gifts are in US dollars and receipts will be issued for US tax deductions only. If you require a receipt for a tax deduction in another country, you should consider giving through that country's mission website. For instance, Canadian donors requiring a Revenue Canada receipt, please give through Ethnos Canada.  Other country's websites can be accessed through the navigation menu at the top of the page.

You may designate a personal gift for a birthday, Christmas or an anniversary, for up to $250 per recipient. This gift will not count as taxable income for the missionary nor as tax-deductible for you.

For instance, you could send Bob Missionary a gift of $250 for his birthday, Bob and June and their two children a gift of $1,000 for Christmas, and Bob and June $500 for their anniversary. Amounts given in excess of $250 per person per gift will be a tax-deductible donation for you and taxable income for the missionary.

You must designate your donation as a personal gift for one of those occasions, and state who it is for. You will receive a non-tax-deductible receipt.

We have been in compliance since we joined ECFA in 2018. ECFA historically interpreted Standard 2 (requiring a majority of independent board members) to allow our missionaries who work outside the Home Office and raise their own support to be considered independent board members for Standard 2 purposes. Several board members of Ethnos360 were considered independent under this interpretation. During a February 2023 ECFA Board meeting, ECFA reviewed this historic interpretation and found it to be no longer valid given the increase of remote working arrangements which make the work location of a ministry staff member largely irrelevant in today’s world. Ethnos360 was notified of this change in interpretation and has agreed to adjust its board composition accordingly within a reasonable, incremental timeframe established by the ECFA board to regain compliance with Standard 2 by January 2025. We remain an accredited member in good standing during this compliance process.

Years ago, we would open a new, specific disaster fund whenever a disaster occurred. This often resulted in there being leftover money at the end of the disaster thanks to the generous giving of our donors exceeding the relief needs. In order to use the money for any other relief efforts, we had to contact each donor related to the remaining money and ask their permission to use it elsewhere. This was not being a good steward of either our staff time or the donations. We have since moved to a system where we have a single disaster relief fund (PUS073) that is always available for giving at https://ethnos360.org/projects/relief-fund. This is the fund we direct our donors to when a disaster occurs and we are communicating ways that donors can help us in our relief efforts for that specific event. This allows us to flow leftover donations seamlessly to the next disaster where we are involved in providing relief. The fund is audited annually by an external firm as part of our annual audit process, and they are provided with detailed accounting for all uses of those funds as appropriate to the intent and nature of the fund.