City Vision
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 320157960
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Burnsville, MN, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $168,544
- Expenses
- $175,076
- Assets
- $75,563
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Mayer (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- John Mayer (Executive Director)
- Laura Rand (Treasurer)
- Bill Brown (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
City Vision is a unique Christian non-profit ministry with the purpose of strategically mobilizing equipping and serving the Church for Kingdom Building.
What it reported doing in 2024
Strategy Church Planting Research city and country exegesis Diaspora outreach Teaching training and speaking Formation of Kingdom collaboration and partnerships
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 69% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 65.9%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 61.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 65.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.