Ywam Deaf World

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934226486
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Mercer, PA, USA
Phone
7246997003
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$82,936
Expenses
$65,747
Assets
$62,763
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Daniel McClelland (President and Director)

People named in this filing

  • Daniel McClelland (President and Director)
  • Alissa Scearbo (Secretary)
  • Caleb Resch (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our primary exempt purpose is to know God and make Him known to the Deaf community through uniting, encouraging, teaching, supporting, and providing resources and training to Biblically based Deaf missionaries and leaders around the world.

What it reported doing in 2025

We provided Biblical teaching and training to Deaf Bible schools in Brazil, Jamaica, and South Africa to a total of approximately 30 Deaf individuals in 4 separate trips. Approximately 6 weeks of training in total. This training has equipped Deaf leaders and missionaries who do religious work in 4 different countries including USA, Jamaica, Brazil, and South Africa. We donated funds to an organization in Jamaica to help 10 Deaf missionaries complete Biblical Training. We also donated funds to an organization in South Africa to help 8 Deaf student complete a Bible School.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.1%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 95.8%; rating input score 96

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.7%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 136.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 28.7% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 31.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.1% of revenue deployed · 95.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.