Catalyst Missions Group Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270022421
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Sapulpa, OK, USA
- Phone
- 8444228259
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $495,257
- Expenses
- $478,236
- Assets
- $86,893
- Liabilities
- $44,257
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES OLSON (PRESIDENT)
- KYLE THOMPSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES OLSON (PRESIDENT): $89,703 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide services to compassion international 501c3 in helping them engage churches to sponsor impoverished children in 29 countries around the world. Our team recruit us pastors to go on vision trips overseas. We also speak in churches and conferences to help release children from poverty in jesus' name. We also support work in oaxaca, mexico through partnership with roca blanca missions base (501c3- latin america missions partners). This work is also helping poor youth attend bible college and trade school as well as supporting evangelism and church growth and development throughout southern, mexico.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sermon.net served customers on a monthly basis. Digital storage of church messages, live feed for the sunday morning and wednesday night services. Plus, a monthly movie night for their church congregation. Compassion international attending aa conferences setting up and preaching compassion. Sundays we serviced over 30 churches helping over 500 children get sponsored through the churches, giving them an education, food and medical during 2024.f.a.r.e. -food allergy research education. Working with inner city churches to bring awareness to the african american family and children to eat healthier.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.5%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.51; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.5% of revenue deployed · 72.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $345K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.