Pulse Outreach
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205425332
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122488080
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,512,994
- Expenses
- $11,558,358
- Assets
- $14,665,625
- Liabilities
- $460,791
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICK HALL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- NICK HALL (PRESIDENT): $294,385 total reported compensation
- KAREN BERG-JOHNSON (VP OF DONOR MINISTRIES & DIRECTOR): $201,940 total reported compensation
- JOHN OREN (VP OF FINANCE & OPS): $171,561 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pulse evangelism is on mission to bring jesus to the pulse of a generation by all means possible, through the ministry of nick hall and a team of emerging evangelists.
What it reported doing in 2024
We identify, train, and launch young evangelists who are passionate about making jesus known in their communities and beyond. Through programs like pulse 100, internships, the make jesus known evangelism training, and our in-development school of evangelism, we're investing in the future of the church and the future of evangelism.highlights-- over 400 young evangelists have been trained through the pulse 100 young evangelist program. - since 2019, over 250 interns have been trained and discipled through the pulse internship program. - we hosted our first ever youth evangelism conference, training hundreds of teens to share their faith. - renovations are in progress on the pulse housing & training center with a vision to establish a global hub for evangelism. To date, nearly 100% of the funding has been completed.- in total, 6,310 were trained to share the gospel through pulse's training programs in fiscal year 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 77.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $294K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $272K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.