Mission Waco Mission World
Legal name: Mission Waco Mission World Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742605621
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Waco, TX, United States
- Phone
- 254-753-4909
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,592,719
- Expenses
- $4,547,334
- Assets
- $16,613,856
- Liabilities
- $361,016
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CALAWAY (PRESIDENT/EX DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN CALAWAY (PRESIDENT/EX DIRECTOR): $99,203 total reported compensation
- TAYLOR BRADLEY (FINANCE DIRECTOR): $74,616 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide Christian-based, holistic, relationship-based programs that empower the poor and marginalized; equip and mobilize middle-class Americans to compassionately engage the poor; and seek ways to overcome systemic issues of social injustice that oppress the poor and marginalized. WACO Why We’re Here Mission Waco strives to address poverty in our own backyard through hands-on compassion. We empower the poor, equip and mobilize the middle-class and engage systemic issues to develop the whole person and the whole city. Our ministry would not be possible without our invested, loving community members, volunteers, staff and donors who want to see Waco change for the better. Waco strives to address poverty in our own backyard through hands-on compassion. Our...
What it reported doing in 2024
Retail sales programs: the world cup cafe provides economic development for the organization's target neighborhood, job training for the food service industry and a gathering place for people of all economic and racial backgrounds.our fair trade market is a sales outlet for fair trade items that provide a livable wage for craftsmen from around the world. The clothesline resale shop sells women's name brand clothing to help raise funds to support the recovery program, utilizes volunteers, and distributes other clothing to low-income persons. Jubilee food market opened in 2016 to effectively end a food desert in our neighborhood.the colcord center provides retail space at market rates to add to economic development of the neighborhood.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35%; rating input score 35
- Program expense ratio: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 60.8%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.65; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 35% of revenue deployed · 83.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $99K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.