Global Action
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841471157
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2023
- Location
- Wheaton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7195288728
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,050,186
- Expenses
- $1,069,222
- Assets
- $386,714
- Liabilities
- $4,884
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD THOMPSON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DR LIONEL YOUNG (EVP & CHIEF DEV. OFFICER): $87,969 total reported compensation
- RICHARD THOMPSON (PRESIDENT): $16,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Global action is a nonprofit religious organization, incorporated in 1998, whose purpose is to proclaim the kingdom of god in word and deed to people around the world and serve the church by empowering, training, motivating, and mobilizing its people so that they become fully devoted followers of christ.
What it reported doing in 2023
Global action's training program is called "foundations". The program equips pastors and leaders, the vast majority of whom have had no formal biblical training. It is a 9-month course that teaches biblical foundations and leadership, through a non-denominational framework. The goal is multiplaction and community transformation in that these pastors and leaders then train others in their towns and villages. Course are taught in latin america, eastern europe, africa and central asia.
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 68% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.6% of revenue deployed · 74.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $793K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.