International Leadership Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311803122
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Carrollton, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7708321244
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,928,821
- Expenses
- $4,239,254
- Assets
- $2,515,918
- Liabilities
- $50,013
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WES GRIFFIN (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- WES GRIFFIN (President & CEO): $229,155 total reported compensation
- CHARLES CROSS (VP OF STRATEGIC GR): $158,796 total reported compensation
- TIM MCWHORTER (COO): $126,442 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The International Leadership Institute changes history by accelerating the spread of the Gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. The International Leadership Institute is a global movement of men and women who are passionate to change history by training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach people with the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Each year, more than 1000 leadership conferences equip men and women around the world with the Eight Core Values of the most effective Christian leaders who are fulfilling the Great Commission to “go and make disciples of all nations.” ILI primarily serves indigenous Christian leaders in over 100 nations from every sector of society, including pastors, educators, business leaders, missionaries, and community influencers. These leaders are passionate about reaching their own.
What it reported doing in 2023
EQUIPPING LEADERS: ILI provides the development of Christian leaders by training and mobilizing people to live by Eight Core Values. Includes training events, global digital strategies, curriculum development and manuals, as well as ministries of preaching, teaching, writing, podcasting, coaching, mentoring, praying, counseling, and general encouragement to a wide audience of people, impacting 121 nations. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, ILI held History Makers Journeys for 26,618 men and women through 833 training events in 121 nations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Pass
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 95.5%; rating input score 96; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: -7.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 88.6% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $229K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.