Lausanne Movement
Legal name: Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330901290
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4078262748
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,860,536
- Expenses
- $4,054,919
- Assets
- $1,914,855
- Liabilities
- $175,250
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
People named in this filing
- ROBERT DOLL (Chairman)
- MICHAEL OH (Executive Dir.)
- MRS MENCHIT WONG (VICE-CHAIR)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To encourage and stimulate the involvement of denominations, churches, ministries, and individuals in the cause of world evangelization through regional and international gatherings to discuss critical issues facing the church, and by publishing the results—envisioning a world with the gospel for every person, disciple-making churches for every people and place, Christ-like leaders for every church and sector, and kingdom impact in every sphere of society.
What it reported doing in 2025
During 2025, lausannes 12 global regions gathered thousands of leaders from over a hundred different countries for equipping and mobilization at the national and regional level. Through regional and national lausanne and partner gatherings, new relationships, ideas, and initiatives across the global church were ignited. Through stewarding momentum from the fourth lausanne congress in late 2024, we began to see significant fruit as leaders turned connection into collaboration and vision into action. Additionally, across the lausanne movement, 27 issue networks mobilized leaders to address the most pressing missional challenges of our time. Over 7,200 leaders engaged globally through lausannes 27 networks with 63 catalysts guiding strategic conversations contributing to the fulfillment of the great commission. In 2025, lausanne also stewarded a strategic investment in more than 900 younger leaders whose influence will shape the global church for decades to come. Through mentoring, training, and global connections, emerging leaders are discovering renewed calling, strengthening their ministries, and multiplying gospel impact in communities around the world. Lastly, lausanne published papers and articles in 5 languages from 80+ unique contributors writing on 66 topics shaping global mission. Additionally, lausanne aired 43 podcasts with guests from 23 countries with 33,840 downloads representing 26,362 listeners from 171 countries and 4.2 million minutes of airtime, ranking lausannes podcasts in the top 5% of 3.7 million podcasts globally. Organizational structurein order to fulfill our purpose and to accomplish lausannes mission and vision, we use an integrated approach:1) convene gatherings of all sizes and locations to bring together global mission influencers for relationship building and maximum trust development to encourage collaboration and sharing of best practices.2) collaboration through experienced networks, including: issue networks organized around specific issues the church is facing, each led by one, two, or three volunteer catalysts,12 regional networks led by volunteer regional directors and co-regional directors, andthe generations network, which connects emerging leaders with older generations of global mission leaders for greater impact.3) curating of content, including lausanne core documents (lausanne covenant, manila manifesto, cape town commitment, and seoul statement), global classroom, lausanne movement podcast, god on the move podcast, anthologies, books, booklets, papers, and articles on best practices, all available for free to a wider audience.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -41.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.