Christian Life Missions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362614903
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Lake Mary, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4073330600
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $343,316
- Expenses
- $295,853
- Assets
- $336,687
- Liabilities
- $4,665
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEPHEN STRANG (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID WELDAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEPHEN STRANG (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID WELDAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DONNA RODRIGUEZ (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian life missions (clm) is a non-profit organization established in 1956 whose sole purpose is to meet the challenges and existing needs of people throughout the world while sharing the gospel of jesus christ.
What it reported doing in 2024
Worldwide missions include sharing the gospel of jesus christ, providing goods, services and relief efforts to various nations. Christian life missions is organized and structured to raise and distribute funds by networking with many different organizations and missions to support evangelism, emergency needs and poverty-stricken people of various countries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 91% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.64 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- 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: 46.2%; rating input score 46; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.8%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $276K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 23 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.