Awakening Lives to World Missions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473102959
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Phone
5058035271
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$431,790
Expenses
$424,133
Assets
$150,359
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • WILLIAM MOBERLY (DIRECTOR): $75,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Awakening Lives to World Missions (ALWM) International carries out ongoing, fruitful, life changing ministry in Bangladesh, Belarus, Cambodia, Kenya, Laos, Myanmar, Tanzania, Thailand & Vietnam through our ministry partners, missionaries and strategic projects in each country. We operate schools, build wells, carry out medical / evangelism ministry, plant churches, train leaders and more, varying country to country based on the ministry and needs of our partners. Our primary focus is on taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to those who have not heard. we also equip churches for purposeful obedience to God's Call to make disciples of all nations (Matt 28:18-20, Acts 1:8).

What it reported doing in 2025

We work with ALWM / NALC Global Worker rev. Dagaga Gemachu and the Oromo Christian Fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya. The thriving ministry there works on two fronts: first, ministering to refugees fleeing Ethiopia and heading to somewhere safe and free in Europe or North America. In the interim these refugees are fed, taught and encouraged! We also have a major ongoing outreach in norther Kenya among the Borana people, a predominantly Muslim nomadic people. More than 8100 people heard the gospel, with more than 1700 coming to Christ! Pastor Dagaga and OCFN have planted 16 congregations among them over the past 10+ years.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 51
  • Accountability: 21
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 68.6%; rating input score 69
  • Fundraising efficiency: $37.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.8%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 68.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 11 filed program accomplishments · $291K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.