Reconciled World

Legal name: Reconciled World Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463250801
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Wheaton, IL, USA
Phone
1-630-871-6864
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Interfaith Coalitions
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,532,033
Expenses
$1,604,730
Assets
$1,378,032
Liabilities
$45,279

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • ANNA HO (Executive Dir.)
  • CELESTE BROWN (Secretary)
  • GRAHAM WILSON (Director)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Reconciled World strengthens churches and helps communities move out of poverty through wholistic discipleship—training believers to apply biblical truth to everyday challenges and demonstrate God’s love in integrated spiritual and physical ways. THE PROGRAM ARTIST RESIDENCY In residencies that we support, artists come together from various nations to engage with issues that affect society. They spend time with marginalized people affected by illness, gender discrimination, or economic vulnerability. The artists then reflect together on God’s truth related to the issue and create art around that theme. This art is shared through exhibitions and short YouTube films. In residencies that we support, artists come together from various nations to engage with issues that affect society. They spend time with marginalized people affected by illness, gender discrimination, or economic...

What it reported doing in 2024

Equipping Churches (EC)Our largest program, Equipping Churches, includes:-the Truth Centered Transformation (TCT)a discipleship program for churches, which teaches Christians to bring all areas of life into alignment with biblical truth and to serve their communities with loving actions. The goals of the program are to see churches strengthened, communities move out of poverty, and God glorified. In FY 2025, 15 partners, totalling about 10,000 churches, graduated from the TCT program; 25 new partners completed onboarding.-Celebration & Learningthis is our monitoring and evaluation structure to measure progress of churches and communities who are participating in TCT. In FY 2025, we designed two new evaluation tools and trained 21 country-level and regional leaders in how to use them. -IntercessionWe provide training and networking support for people who want to think and pray about poverty and social justice issues in their country. In FY 2025, we did from one to eight trainings (depending on area and language) with more than 60 volunteers in Africa alone and about 20 more in Asia. Congo and Benin groups are now meeting weekly.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 82% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 57
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.1%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $67.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 2.6%; rating input score 3; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 96.1% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 3/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.