YWAM Montana Lakeside
Legal name: Youth with a Mission of Mt Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 816037128
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2016
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- Lakeside, MT, United States
- Phone
- 4068442221
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,186,840
- Expenses
- $5,719,772
- Assets
- $4,211,244
- Liabilities
- $568,307
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- R KEITH BUZZARD (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARISKA BUZZARD (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RON BREWSTER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- G GORDON MCDONALD (VICE-CHAIRMAN): $48,894 total reported compensation
- R KEITH BUZZARD (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $15,710 total reported compensation
- MARISKA BUZZARD (CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $15,710 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Together, we commit to the communication of the gospel by training, sending, supporting, and being missionaries. You can serve as a mission builder in several departments at YWAM Montana | Lakeside, working in an environment that suits your abilities and desires while also helping us meet our current needs. Take the opportunity to develop meaningful relationships, gain insight into full-time missionary service, and meet Christians from around the world during times of work, worship and celebration Mission builders length:. builder?
What it reported doing in 2016
Youth with a mission of mt, inc. Proclaims the gospel of jesus christ through its programs. Our international outreaches and missions are done throughout the world by individual missionaries and groups of student outreaches. We also do international ministry through sports, dance, theater and music.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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 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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.7%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $29.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.7% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2016
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.