Pastor Rick's Daily Hope

What it reported doing in 2024

Purpose Driven Connection (PDC) helps create healthy lives and healthy churches for the global glory of God through a variety of media and ministry platforms. In accomplishing this mission, PDC brings biblical teaching, discipleship tools, and the Good News of Jesus to people around the worldencouraging spiritual growth and equipping believers for purpose-driven living.Through television, radio, podcasts, YouTube, and digital media, PDC produces and distributes Pastor Ricks Daily Hopea series of Bible-based messages developed from the sermons and teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Warren. The Daily Hope audio program reaches people worldwide through the ministrys website (pastorrick.com) and app, paid digital platforms like OnePlace and Pray.com, major podcast platforms like Spotify and iHeartRadio, more than 130 US-based radio stations, and more than 20 international stations. Daily Hope also reaches listeners on PastorRick.com Esperanza Diaria, the Daily Hope broadcast in Spanish, which can be heard on more than 100 radio stations throughout North and South America. Daily Hope's televised program continues to be distributed on the TBN Christian network. Each weekday, PDC delivers a written devotional from Pastor Rick to more than one million people, and it engages millions of others each month through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. As a result of these efforts, over 36,000 individuals have written to share that they accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior, with countless others sharing how Daily Hope has helped them find God's purpose for their lives.PDC also develops, distributes, and promotes sermons, devotionals, Bible studies, and other Christian resources aimed at helping people grow spiritually and training pastors worldwide. These materials are distributed worldwide both digitally and physically, including to places that have little or no access to Christian resources. As of 2024, PDCs translation efforts have made the Daily Hope written devotionals and audio broadcast available in 22 languages. More than three hundred thousand people have subscribed to receive the Daily Hope devotional in their language. These translation projects have also made The Purpose Driven Life available, in both print and audio formats, in 200 languages. The Daily Hope television broadcast has also been translated into Ukrainian and Russian and is currently airing across Russia, Ukraine, and neighboring countries. The Purpose Driven Essentials training course for pastors has been translated into 39 languages and is being used to equip pastors to grow healthy and vibrant churches all around the world. PDC provides these translated resources for free via the website RickWarren.org. To further amplify impact, PDC invests in digital advertising to promote translated materials and reach people where they areonline and on mobile devicesin their native languages.Using all these methods of spreading the good news and hope of Jesus Christ, Daily Hope reached people in more than 190 countries in 2024.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 61.6%; rating input score 62
• Program expense ratio: 80.7%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $10.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 26.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.7; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings