Gospel Outreach
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911588656
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- College Place, WA, USA
- Phone
- 509-525-2951
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,678,561
- Expenses
- $4,470,894
- Assets
- $2,772,440
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENT SCULLY (PRESIDENT & BOARD SECRETARY)
People named in this filing
- KEN CRAWFORD (BOARD CHAIR)
- BRENT SCULLY (PRESIDENT & BOARD SECRETARY)
- JAMES ASH (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Gospel Outreach is a nonprofit organization dedicated to extending the international ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the 10/40 Window, introducing people to Jesus and raising support so local Bible workers can share the gospel in unreached areas. Gospel Outreach is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization fully dedicated to extending the international ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in unreached areas of the world–with a special emphasis on the 10/40 Window. Founded in the early 1990s, Gospel Outreach raises funds to help sponsor more than 2,000 indigenous (local) Bible workers in more than 50 countries. Did you know it costs only $150 per month on average to support a Bible worker in his or her own country? With a sense of utmost urgency, given our location in the last days of earth’s history, we invite you to join in this mission of fulfilling the Great...
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing stipends to support national bible workers; supporting and building houses of prayer and schools; at years end over 2,000 men and women were being supported in about 50 nations of the third world. In addition to the religious instruction, the workers are engaged in literacy education and community and personal health education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th 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: Pass
- 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: 99.1%; rating input score 99; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.