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This page is dedicated to the minimum admin administrative fees charged to staff accounts. To see fees charged to network and ministry partners please see admin fee structures.
Typical Administrative Fees:
Initial MTD: Before Missionary Reaches 100% | 12% applied to general gifts 3% applied to Sponsor Church |
Sustaining MTD: After missionary reaches 100% their initial goal (a.k.a. |
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Released to Assignment) | 12% applied to general gifts 3% applied to Sponsor Church A minimum admin fee or flat admin fee will be applied when admin charge from gifts drops below minimum, based on their hours of work. |
Interns Typically 2-12 mo. | Generally a 12% admin fee No minimum admin fee and no Sponsor Church
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| Associate Missionaries | 12% applied to all gifts No minimum admin fee and no Sponsor Church |
Minimum Admin Fees & Flat Admin Fees:
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Minimum Admin Fees
Reliant's minimum admin fee addresses The reason Reliant has a minimum administration fee is to address situations in which Reliant spends more administering a missionary's employment and donor services than their donations provide.
There are several situations when Reliant charges minimum administration fees in the place of the 12% (or 3%) categories normally charged:
- Example: When a missionary who is employed at the amount they wish to work, yet, their funding drops and they don't intend to increase that funding. This will most often happen when a missionary changes their ministry to part-time, which in turn reduces the minimum fee accordingly.
- Example: Missionaries newly released to assignment who have attained their goal through recurring gifts but whose recurring gifts may not be fully current or fluctuate during the early months of their release.
the gifts to the account they are responsible for provide.
Flat Admin Fees
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Flat fees were established for missionaries who are funded by a single donor; typically the sending church. This is done with the acknowledgement that Reliant's costs are lowered by having just one donor. It is not uncommon that these missionary types will not submit reimbursements and only one support payment per month to process are examples of why the costs are so much lower. Use of the Flat Fee serves as a cap on the admin fee. In the Flat fee case, the administrative fee stays the same no matter how high any month's giving goes. This does allow the convenience for churchesthe church/donor to send support funds on a quarterly, bi-monthly or semi-annual basis other rather than monthly without a negative impact due to sliding fee scales. Flat Admin fees post to the MTD account every month regardless of gift activity and is are not subject to any % variance.
Application of Minimum Admin and Flat Admin Fees
Minimum Admin fee amounts are programmed into CRM (purpose page, gift fees tab) in the appropriate amount when missionaries are released to assignment.
The Minimum Admin Fee is calculated each month and applied whenever the administrative fee that is derived by percentage falls below the minimums set by the table below.
Flat Admin fees are programmed into CRM at the opening of a fund when there is a single donor - CRM purpose page, gift fees tab.
Applied to the missionary account, each month, based on the agreement of having a single donor.
Charging Flat Admin fees for exiting missionaries.
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As of November 2012, our standard Admin Fees & Flat Admin fees are as Follows:
| Minimum Admin Fee | Calculated in any month there are gifts below the minimum, including months with no new gifts. |
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| $250 | Full Time 40 hrs/week |
| $250 | Part Time 30 hrs/week |
| $200 | Part Time 20 and 25 hrs/week |
| $150 | Hourly |
| $250 | Staff Couple - combined hours equal 40 |
Flat Admin Fee | Calculated every month regardless of gifts. The employment status above sets the amount of fee. |
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Please review MTD & Administrative Fee Structure for more specifics on sending church authorizations and other information.
MR has the right to request an over-ride the application of these fees.
Examples:
- When a missionary is actively raising support for a new assignment (like international) and chooses to "accrue" their support for deployment, by switching to associate.
- When a missionary's employment is being terminated and giving is cut off prior to termination date.
- When a missionary's MTD account is being supported by a sponsor church and the agreement with the sponsor church was to pay a full 12%.
Employment and MTD Categories, along with Fees that are typically applied.
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There are missionaries who need a period of ministry after long months of raising support in order to re-gain vision and give current donors vision for ministry. Those who are in Active Status while still in Initial MTD have been approved for a limited period of time to engage in their ministry, with set times to return to MTD.
12% applied to general gifts; 3% applied to sending/ sponsor church until released from Initial MTD.
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Accruing MTD +
Associate
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There are missionaries who have been previously released to Assignment, yet wish to fore-go paychecks (partially or fully) for the purpose of increasing the MTD account balance for which they are responsible for, and the giving associated with that MTD account.
12% applied to general; 3% applied to sending/ sponsor church until released from Initial MTD.
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The vast majority of our missionaries have been released to assignment.
12% applied to general gifts; 3% applied to sending/sponsor church; minimum admin fee applied when admin charge from gifts drops below minimum, based on their hours of work.
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Interns "Year Long"
6-12 mo.
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Interns
less than 6 month.
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12% applied to all gifts, no sending/sponsor church discount, no minimum
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