Parliament of the Worlds Religions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363605228
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 5168491929
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $346,553
- Expenses
- $151,340
- Assets
- $82,732
- Liabilities
- $735,002
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Trice (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Scott Stearman (Treasurer)
- Charline Manuel (Chairman)
- Sahar Alsahlani (Trustee)
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
The vision of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is of a just, peaceful and sustainable world in which: *Religious and spiritual communities live in harmony and contribute to a better world from their riches of wisdom and compassion *Religious and cultural fears and hatreds are replaced with understanding and respect *People everywhere come to know and care for their neighbors *The richness of human and religious diversity is woven into the fabric of communal, civil, societal and global life *The world's most powerful and influential institutions move beyond narrow self-interest to realize common good *The Earth and all life are cherished, protected, healed and restored *All people commit to living out their highest values and aspirations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Motivated by hospitality and compassion inherent in the world's religious and spiritual traditions, the council creates open forums institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and sustainable world
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 42
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 13.2%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 30
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.3%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 8.88; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 13.2% of revenue deployed · 29.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 33 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 33 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.