GlobalChurch Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994001061
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Wichita Falls, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5122004801
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $550,715
- Expenses
- $183,686
- Assets
- $368,656
- Liabilities
- $1,627
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul Martel (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Trent Brown (Secretary): $5,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To equip the global Church for discipleship, service, and impactful collaboration with the goal of fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Digital Ecosystem Initiative: Global.Church is developing a Global Digital Ecosystem to empower the global Church by fostering collaboration, connection, discipleship, and missional action worldwide. This initiative encompasses the design and implementation of a comprehensive framework to launch platforms which support and equip ministries and believers around the world. In 2024, Global.Church made significant progress toward this initiative through the engagement platform development and aligning strategic partnerships. Engagement Platform Development: Created and validated a proof-of-concept application designed to connect users with faith communities, provide access to trusted and relevant spiritual formation content, and mobilize them into missional action Assembled and began scaling the Product, Engineering, and Marketing teams to further develop the platform toward a minimum viable product (MVP). Strategic Partnerships: Established partnerships with leading mission-focused organizations to co-develop the foundational infrastructure for a Data Sharing Platform. These partnerships are creating a collaborative framework to enable the seamless exchange of insights and resources across the global Church. Through the Global Digital Ecosystem initiative, Global.Church is laying the groundwork for a transformative, interconnected digital environment that will help ministries and believers worldwide engage more effectively in their mission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 32.2%; rating input score 32
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $4,443.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- 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: 66.6%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 32.2% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $175K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 3 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $128K reported
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.