Spirit of the Lord International Mission

What it reported doing in 2024

We provide for the basic needs for very poor families especially women and children. We provide bible studies food clothing shoes medicine and shelter for many poor families and abandoned and elderly women. We paid for dental procedures for 20 people. We paid for doctors visits and 3 hospital stays. We restored 4 housesthat our mission built 30 years ago in the hills of juarez mexico. Some children are totally supported by our mission. They are from the poorest families so we provide school fees and supplies. We paid for eye doctors and glasses for children and adults. We paid for doctors medicines and treatment for 5 of our poor with vaccine injuries. We paid taxes on the houses we built and provded air conditioners and heaters for families. We pay rent and medical needs for many abandoned women. We pay gas and upkeep on two vehicles used to transport food and building supplies. Because of low wages in juarez mexico we provide food for many families weekly. Our mission fully suppots an outreach to the elderly poor in coal city wv. We provide food clothing medicine and a monthly church service. We paid for a funeral 2 hospital stays medicine and doctors fees in our outreach in trinidad tobago. We replaced 5 roofs on houses in the hills of juarez. We bought toilets kitchen appliances and electrical wiring and electrical control boxes for 4 houses.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
• Fundraising efficiency: $65.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • 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: -34.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.25; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings