Mission Increase
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834503439
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5036397364
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,766,045
- Expenses
- $6,584,383
- Assets
- $1,701,532
- Liabilities
- $265,826
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAN DAVIS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAN DAVIS (PRESIDENT): $249,204 total reported compensation
- SCOTT SCHARPEN (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $209,690 total reported compensation
- LEE WILHITE (COO, SECRETARY): $204,405 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission increase equips donors, nonprofits, and churches to multiply their collective kingdom impact, so that more lives are transformed for jesus.
What it reported doing in 2025
The provision of biblically-based teaching, consulting and coaching services to over 4,000 nonprofit ministries across the country, including quarterly workshops and webinars, mostly free of charge to ministries, conducted by 27 area directors (count as of 12.31.25).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 69.3%; rating input score 69; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.26; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $249K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $245K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.