UFM Worldwide

What it reported doing in 2025

Our primary community project assists a deeply impoverished community in northern brazil. Ministries include church planting, church services, bible teaching, a preschool group, soccer clubs, and women's groups european ministries include multimedia, personal, and interactive approach to ministry through audio, video, cell phone, and internet to spread the gospel, sharing personal testimonies of faith, teaching, training and encouragement in living as christians in non-christian regions. Other involvements and contributions were made to: personnel and funds have provided shelter, counsel, and resources to vulnerable women in major city centers humanitarian aid, encouragement, and assistance to churches in war afflicted areas of eastern europe and middle east humanitarian aid to internationally displaced people in eastern europe, nigeria, cameroon and chad working alongside churches to provide leadership training, and encouragement to indigenous christians living in east central asia, eastern europe, and greater europe humanitarian aid to refugees from war torn countries in west asia and the middle east famine relief in malawi bible projects in kurdish and greek purchase and shipping of christian textbooks to nigeria christian textbook translation work in the hausa language our ministry in se asia is church planting, bible teaching, and helping those in the local community. This is a war torn country with flooding, earthquakes, and economic decline/collapse. We supply food to families surrounding the church and to churches in the north of the country. We do this annually and as funds are available.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: $66.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Fail
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings