VisionSynergy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200351801
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4256735644
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,662,597
- Expenses
- $1,706,193
- Assets
- $568,884
- Liabilities
- $49,838
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KARIN BUTLER PRIMUTH (CEO)
- SCOTT WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT/BOARD CHAIR (PART YEAR))
- DEBORAH SLAVIN (MEMBER/VICE PRESIDENT/BOARD CHAIR)
Highest reported compensation
- KARIN BUTLER PRIMUTH (CEO): $148,369 total reported compensation
- DAVID THORESEN (SR DIR OF OPERATIONS): $145,727 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
VisionSynergy exists to accelerate the Great Commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world. VisionSynergy catalyzes collaboration among ministries working in the world’s least reached places.** For over 20 years, we’ve helped launch and strengthen global, regional, and local mission networks involving thousands of churches and ministries. Backed by major Christian foundations, high-capacity individuals, and hundreds of other donors, we serve as a trusted neutral broker – connecting people, strategies, and resources for greater gospel impact. Why Collaboration Matters Ministries often work in the same regions with similar goals, but without coordination – leading to duplication and inefficiency. Many grantmakers now ask: “Who are you partnering with?” or “How does your...
What it reported doing in 2024
Advocating for collaborationwe advocate for increased collaboration in the christian mission movement through speaking engagements and publications that inform and inspire. In fy2025, our partnership with the lausanne movement continued through the ministry collaboration network, connecting over 2,300 leaders worldwide. Through quarterly calls and four-week collaboration cohorts, 138 leaders from 34 countries explored strategies for addressing mission challenges through shared resources and joint initiatives. To strengthen access to collaboration tools globally, we expanded our publishing, translation, and digital resource efforts. This included the launch of a redesigned organization website featuring free collaboration resources, improved content accessibility, and increased visibility among trusted global mission leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 21st 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: -2.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $148K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.