IGO Ministries (International Gospel Outreach)
Legal name: International Gospel Outreach Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 640523809
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Semmes, AL, United States of America
- Phone
- +12516452117
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $497,254
- Expenses
- $525,981
- Assets
- $316,032
- Liabilities
- $144,800
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tim Faircloth (President)
People named in this filing
- KENNETH AYCOCK (Board Member)
- DONNY SAVAGE (BOARD MEMBER)
- Tim Faircloth (President)
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
International Gospel Outreach is a mission agency working across denominational lines to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ at home in the United States and around the world. We are a Non-profit organization, recognized by the IRS to receive donations for tax exemption. IGO provides the necessary training for its career missionaries to reach their fields of service, and then provides support services that enable to missionary to focus on the work at hand instead of having to deal with the business of missions back home. We consider ourselves servants to those on the front lines of missions. Most of our missionaries have been pioneers in their field of service, blazing trails for new work an.
What it reported doing in 2024
This organization provides training and support to missionaries who preach the gospel of jesus christ throughout the world and through acts of humanitiarian aid to the general public. All expenses are related to this purpose the home staff maintains contact with the missionaries by raising funds and keeping their funds channeled to them weekly. Helping them with any homeland problems while they are out of the country. The institute for world ministry conducts training classes here at the office from january through june for those who apply and are accepted. We also conduct classes by extension and helping other christian organizations to conduct training classes. We help missionaries conduct humanitarian aid in countries where they are serving. A good example happened in 2010 when aid was provided to the people of haiti and chile.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.7% of revenue deployed · 82.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $436K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.