Life Action

Overview

Mission

Life Action helps churches, families, and Christian leaders move toward revival, vitality, and their mission with Jesus. Life Action offers many ways to use your God-given gifts to help believers everywhere move toward revival, vitality, and their mission with Jesus. We’re looking for people who have a passion for Jesus, a heart to serve, and a desire to be a part of work that matters! We have opportunities to serve remotely and at our facilities in Buchanan, MI. View Current Opportunities Serve for a Day, a Summer, or a Year! Life Action offers a unique opportunity for college-aged young adults to serve local churches. Our Road Team Apprenticeship Program is unique and focuses on helping young adults develop their skills, serve on mission with Jesus, and grow closer to Christ through intentional discipleship and a Jesus-centered community. Learn More.

Operating model

Revenue model

Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 62
• Transparency & Controls: 70
• Accountability: 86
• Sustainability: 28
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 61.8% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $12.6M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $187K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
• Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
• Filing history: 13 filing years from 2009 to 2022
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
• 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: 8 of 8 not reported.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.