This page is dedicated to the minimum admin administrative fees (assessments) charged to staff accounts.  To see fees charged to network and ministry partners please see admin fee structures.

Purpose of Minimum Admin Fees: 

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. 

Purpose of Flat Admin Fee:

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 churches/donor to send support funds on a quarterly, bi-monthly or basis other 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 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.

Reliant closes the MTD account at the end of the last month worked, therefore no Flat Admin Fee is applied beyond the last month of employment.  The final paycheck is issued in the preceding month based on the balance of the closed MTD account.  Therefore when the missionary is exiting, special care should be taken to note the balance of the account prior to closing to insure there will be sufficient funds in the account to meet the pay requirements as intended by the funding church making the donations.

As of November 2012, our standard Admin Fees & Flat Admin fees are as Follows: 

Reliant employee accounts. Below are listed our typical administrative assessments during various phases of employment with Reliant.

Minimum Admin Fees and Flat Admin Fees 

Minimum Admin Fees (Assessments)

If the overall administrative total is less than the amounts below, Reliant will charge a set Minimum Administrative Fee to the MTD account each month.  

Flat Admin

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Calculated every month regardless of gifts. The employment status above sets the amount of fee.

 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

Fees (Assessments)

Flat Administrative Assessments are established for Reliant employees who are funded by a single donor, typically the sending church. Typically they correspond with the minimum admin assessment, but they are worked out on a case-by-case basis with the church. 

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