World Christian Outreach, INC.
Legal name: World Christian Outreach Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 953027565
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Napa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 707-738-7319
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $410,230
- Expenses
- $401,418
- Assets
- $45,160
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mark Luce (President and CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Stan Herpick (Treasurer): $34,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
World Christian Outreach, Inc. (WCO) was founded to spread the Gospel (Good News) of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, mankind's only means of salvation from sin and reconciliation to God. Through a set-aside time of fasting and prayer in 1975, the name and vision for World Christian Outreach were born. The ministry incorporated with the intent to: 1.** Declare the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord throughout the world as God directs. 2.** Support and act as a catalyst to the foreign, indigenous church, recognizing that they know best how to communicate with their own people, cultivate a community of believers, and operate most efficiently within their own culture.
What it reported doing in 2025
We conducted Pastor training and initiated a regular Bible training program in Kenya, supported the operations of a missionary house and prayer chapel in Bahati, Kenya and support a secondary school for orphans in Laikipia, Kenya and the ongoing evangelical efforts in Kenya. A week long training conference was provided to 300 local Pastors from 25 different Christian denominations. A dozen Pastors were trained to run the INSTE Bible training program. Funds were provided to continue the operation of New Dawn School for Orphans in Laikipia Kenya which provides both boarding and education to about 100 youth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 39
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 2.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 97.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $401K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.