Missional Living

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
810974970
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
Location
Knoxville, TN, USA
Phone
8658052074
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$130,659
Expenses
$114,374
Assets
$432,509

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • LAWRENCE BODIE (CHAIRMAN/PRE)
  • MARTIN THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE DI)
  • MITZI BODIE (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Missional Living exists to glorify God through the support and care of Christian missionaries by providing transitional housing, coaching and training in the United States and abroad. CORE VALUES. Marty is an experienced business and ministry leader who is passionate about resourcing, coaching and training men and women in the US and around the world. His business experience includes 25 years in management and leadership, including 12 years as a plant engineer in the aerospace industry and 13 years purchasing, operating and selling small businesses. Following God’s leading, Marty entered vocational ministry and in the next 21 years served four churches as their executive pastor and most recently, global mission pastor. Combining his experiences with a Master of Divinity and an M.A. in Organizational Leadership, he is now excited to serve as the Missionary Care and Coaching Coordinator.

What it reported doing in 2025

The coaching program provided christian missionaries an opportunity to set personal and ministry goals and objectives, build hope and instill confidence as they serve internationally.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 90% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.78; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.