The World Our Parish Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611336576
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wilmore, KY, USA
- Phone
- 8598582999
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $425,165
- Expenses
- $315,054
- Assets
- $2,205,230
- Liabilities
- $4,750
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHILLIP STEPHENSON ENGLISH (PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD STEVENSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PAM ENGLISH (SECRETARY): $121,702 total reported compensation
- PHILLIP STEPHENSON ENGLISH (PRESIDENT): $81,427 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The world our parish exists to spread the gospel of jesus christ througout the world. At present this is carried out by preaching and teaching on spiritual formation, providing education for the poor, ministry to orphans who have aged out of institutions, and donating funds to ministries doing evangelism all over the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
The top three largest expenses were 1.) providing for our missionary directors and sending them to teach and preach throughout the USA and various parts of the world, 2.) ministry to transitioning orphans and impoverished youth through housing and education ministries, and 3.) donating funds to ministries who focus on global evangelism .
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 80% for direct work, and 20% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 49.7%; rating input score 50; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 64.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $276K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 24 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.