World Help

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541615454
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Official website data refreshed
Jun 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Forest, VA, USA
Phone
4345254657
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Religious (unspecified)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,208,449
Expenses
$36,858,319
Assets
$11,307,983
Liabilities
$1,185,866

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • NOEL YEATTS (PRESIDENT/CEO)
  • DAVID THOMPSON (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • NOEL YEATTS (PRESIDENT/CEO): $232,390 total reported compensation
  • ALLYN LYTTLE (COO/INTERIM TREASURER): $178,509 total reported compensation
  • CHAD MATHER (TREASURER/CFO (PART-YEAR)): $167,533 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 Help is a Christian humanitarian organization serving the physical and spiritual needs of people in impoverished communities around the world. Our core values. World Help is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your gift is tax-deductible as allowed by law. Unless you specify otherwise, gifts are considered unrestricted. Donations designated for a specific project include a small administrative fee to help cover operating and fundraising costs. If a project receives more funds than needed, or cannot be completed, your gift will be used where it can make the greatest impact in support of World Help's mission. You can view our full financial reports here. _You may also request a hard copy, as well as descriptions of World Help's programs, by calling 800-541-6691._ Graphical illustration of the World Help financial breakdown and accountability.

What it reported doing in 2025

Humanitarian aid: world help strives to be the first one on the ground and the last one to leave when crises happen around the world. Our immediate response to meet physical and spiritual needs during natural disasters, famine, poverty, or other catastrophes is crucial to helping save lives. We partner with nationals already on the ground who can quickly identify where the needs are the most critical. We then work to ensure people have access to necessities including water, food, medicine, shelter, and clothing. Everything we do is built on the belief that we, as people of faith, are called to change lives. And we believe lives can only be changed when the needs of the whole person are met - body and soul. (continued on schedule o)faith means very little when people don't have access to the food, clean water, or medicines they need. But without faith, meeting those physical needs is just a short-term fix. It takes both physical help and spiritual hope for true transformation to happen. Our ultimate goal is to establish self-sustaining communities with access to the word of god, improve lives, and create brighter futures.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Pass
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Fail
    • Conducts site visits: Pass
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.9%; rating input score 98; 38th 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; 14th 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: 0.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.31; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 81% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $30.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.8M reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.