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2737 LONG LAKE DR NE
Roswell GA 30075-4076
Roswell GA | IRS ruling year: 2012 | EIN: 61-1688122
PASSIONLIFE MINISTRIES IS A GLOBAL MISSIONS INITIATIVE TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF LIFE AND EXPAND THE PREGNANCY HELP MOVEMENT AMONG NATIONS PLAGUED BY ABORTION, INFANTI ... (More)
PASSIONLIFE MINISTRIES IS A GLOBAL MISSIONS INITIATIVE TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF LIFE AND EXPAND THE PREGNANCY HELP MOVEMENT AMONG NATIONS PLAGUED BY ABORTION, INFANTICIDE AND GENDERCIDE. (Less)
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This charity's score is 91%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.
This overall score is calculated from multiple beacon scores: 90% Accountability & Finance, 10% Leadership & Adaptability. Learn more about our criteria and methodology.
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The IRS is significantly delayed in processing nonprofits' annual tax filings (Forms 990). As a result, the Accountability & Finance score for Passionlife Ministries is outdated and the overall rating may not be representative of its current operations. Please check with the charity directly for any questions you may have.
Passionlife Ministries has earned a 90% for the Accountability & Finance beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies.
This Accountability & Finance score represents IRS Form 990 data up until FY 2019, which is the most recent Form 990 currently available to us.
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Not ApplicableBoard Composition - 7/8 - 35/35 ptsBoard Composition - 7/8 - 35/35 pts
Charity Navigator looks for at least 3 board members, with more than 50% of those members identified as independent (not salaried).
The presence of an independent governing body is strongly recommended by many industry professionals to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters.
Source: IRS Form 990
Independent Audit or Financial Review - N/A - 0/0 ptsIndependent Audit or Financial Review - N/A - 0/0 pts
An Audit, Review, or Compilation provides important information about financial accountability and accuracy. Organizations are scored based on their Total Revenue Amount:
| Total Revenue Amount | Expectation to Receive Credit |
|---|---|
| $1 million or higher | Expected to complete an audit |
| $500,000 - $1 million | Expected to complete an audit, review, or compilation |
| Less than $500,000 | No expectation (removed from scoring methodology) |
Source: IRS Form 990
Conflict of Interest Policy - Listed - 5/5 ptsConflict of Interest Policy - Listed - 5/5 pts
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a conflict of interest policy on the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy protects the organization and by extension those it serves, when it is considering entering into a transaction that may benefit the private interest of an officer, director and/or key employee of the organization.
Source: IRS Form 990
Board Meeting Minutes - Documented - 5/5 ptsBoard Meeting Minutes - Documented - 5/5 pts
Charity Navigator looks to confirm on the Form 990 that the organization has this process in place as an accountability and transparency measure.
An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference.
Source: IRS Form 990
Document Retention and Destruction - Missing - 0/5 ptsDocument Retention and Destruction - Missing - 0/5 pts
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a document retention and destruction policy per the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy establishes guidelines for the handling, backing up, archiving and destruction of documents. These guidelines foster good record keeping procedures that promote data integrity.
Source: IRS Form 990
Whistleblower Policy - Missing - 0/5 ptsWhistleblower Policy - Missing - 0/5 pts
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a whistleblower policy per the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy outlines procedures for handling employee complaints, as well as a confidential way for employees to report financial or other types of mismanagement.
Source: IRS Form 990
Website - Listed - 5/5 ptsWebsite - Listed - 5/5 pts
Charity Navigator looks for a website on the Form 990 as an accountability and transparency metric.
Nonprofits act in the public trust and reporting publicly on activities is an important component.
Source: IRS Form 990
Full CreditPartial CreditNo CreditNot ApplicableLiabilities to Assets Ratio - 2.15% - 15/15 ptsLiabilities to Assets Ratio - 2.15% - 15/15 pts
The Liabilities to Assets Ratio is determined by Total Liabilities divided by Total Assets (most recent 990). This ratio is an indicator of an organization’s solvency and/or long-term sustainability.
| Liabilities to Assets Ratio | Amount of Credit Received |
|---|---|
| Less than 50% | Full Credit |
| 50% - 59.9% | Partial Credit |
| 60% or more | No Credit |
Source: IRS Form 990
Program Expense Ratio - 75.15% - 25/25 ptsProgram Expense Ratio - 75.15% - 25/25 pts
The Program Expense Ratio is determined by Program Expenses divided by Total Expense (average of most recent three 990s). This measure reflects the percent of its total expenses a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver.
| Program Expense Percentage | Amount of Credit Received |
|---|---|
| 70% or higher | Full Credit |
| 60% - 69.9% | Partial Credit |
| 50% - 59.9% | Zero Points for Program Expense Score |
| Below 50% | Zero Points for Both Program Expense AND Liabilities to Assets Scores |
Source: IRS Form 990
This chart displays the trend of revenue and expenses over the past several years for this organization, as reported on their IRS Form 990.
Presented here are up to five of this organization's highest compensated employees. This compensation data includes salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and is displayed exactly how it is reported to the IRS. The amounts do not include nontaxable benefits, deferred compensation, or other amounts not reported on Form W-2. In some cases, these amounts may include compensation from related organizations. Read the IRS policies for compensation reporting
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2020
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Activities:
Activity data not reported from the IRS
Foundation Status:
Church 170(b)(1)(A)(i) (BMF foundation code: 10)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (Passionlife Ministries) or EIN (611688122) in the 'Search Term' field.
This organization was impacted by COVID-19 in a way that effected their financial health in 2020. This normally would have reduced their star rating. Due to the unprecedented nature of the pandemic, we give charities such as this one the opportunity to share the story of COVID's impact on them, and doing this pauses our revision of their rating. Charities may submit their own pandemic responses through their nonprofit portal.
Passionlife Ministries reported being impacted by COVID-19 in the following ways:
Program Delivery
Fundraising Capacity
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's operations financially:
Our support community was impacted negatively and at least one major grant of $25,000 was canceled due to loss of income related to COVID-19 business disruption. In 2020 we applied and received $53,000 as a PPP Loan. The loan was later forgiven and the loss of contributions proved minimal and temporary. We continued to grow the number of people supporting us and as a result, we were able to offset and even increase our total donations over the last 2 years.
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's delivery of programs:
PassionLife's program is specialized international leadership training. Prior to COVID-19, we had leadership training teams traveling to China and Cuba 4 times a year and annual trips to India, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Romania, Zambia, and more. Our work focused on training in bioethics and crisis intervention strategies. Due to COVID-19, visas were canceled, and all travel ceased. In-country staff was unable to leave home or gather with others. Video-based training is working on a small scale. In some countries, like Colombia, in-person training resumed in 2021. COVID-19 has been a huge disrupter to our work, but it has also forced us into creative workarounds that have improved our work. We now build key relationships via virtual meetings with leaders so that upon arrival in-country we have a foundation with the local leaders and are ready to have them partner with us in training. Prior to COVID-19, this training partnership took a second or third trip.
How this organization adapted to changing conditions caused by COVID-19:
COVID-19 has led to 4 major changes in the delivery of our program. 1. The use of video-based training in which pastors and leaders meet with us online weekly over several months. 2. The creation of group chats and video conferencing with people in regions of the world like Cuba/Latin America in which ideas for outreach are shared with others. 3. The formation of indigenous, leadership teams within key countries. And finally, 4. much improved and revised written resources and virtual distribution processes. For example, website development with redesigned and re-edited training material.
Innovations the organization intends to continue permanently after the pandemic:
All 4 innovations and adjustments to COVID-19 mentioned above are proving valid apart from COVID-19 and will continue. 1. The use of video-based training in which pastors and leaders meet with us online weekly over several months. 2. The creation of group chats and video conferencing with people in regions of the world like Cuba/Latin America in which ideas for outreach are shared with others. 3. The formation of indigenous, leadership teams within key countries. And finally, 4. much improved and revised written resources and virtual distribution processes. For example, website development with redesigned and re-edited training material.
Not Currently Scored
Passionlife Ministries cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Results methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
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Passionlife Ministries reported its largest program on its FY 2020 Form 990 as:
Spent in most recent FY
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During the past year, PassionLife designed, produced, manufactured, distributed and presented educational materials related to bio-ethics, pregnancy and fetal health in the provinces of China, Cuba, V ... (More)
During the past year, PassionLife designed, produced, manufactured, distributed and presented educational materials related to bio-ethics, pregnancy and fetal health in the provinces of China, Cuba, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Taiwan, Columbia,Peru, Mexico and Nigeria. Using a training for trainer model, PassionLife provided bioethical training to community leaders and practical training in establishing local based, pregnancy crisis intervention services. (Less)
Passionlife Ministries cannot currently be evaluated by our Culture & Community methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its Constituent Feedback or Equity Practices strategies.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
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Passionlife Ministries has earned a 100% for the Leadership & Adaptability beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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Full CreditPartial CreditNo CreditNot ApplicableMission - 10/10 ptsMission - 10/10 pts
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
PassionLife works as a prolife global missions partner to missionaries and Christian leaders, in countries where the plague of abortion, infanticide, and gendercide is especially concentrated. We disciple people in a biblical worldview of human value, teach them how to make the case for life in a secular culture, see abortion guilt and grief as an entry point for the Gospel’s offer of forgiveness and freedom, and provide models of pregnancy crisis intervention services that can be adapted to their culture and neighborhood.
Vision - 10/10 ptsVision - 10/10 pts
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
Our vision is to see the Church worldwide faithfully and courageously answering God’s call to rescue the innocent from unjust death (Proverbs 24:11) making abortion, unwanted now and unthinkable for future generations.
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
Goals - 20/20 ptsGoals - 20/20 pts
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Mobilize churches around the value of human life in China, Cuba, and other countries where child-killing is concentrated and help develop local models for providing pregnancy intervention services.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Two: In each country, pursue personal life-change and cultural transformation, by training leaders in biblical bioethics and crisis intervention strategies in a way they can disciple their members.
Goal Type: Focus on core programs to achieve mission and scale back on programs not seen as core.
Goal Three: Plan and execute large-scale leadership training campaigns marked by a “hear it, follow it, share it” simplicity using methods and resources that are rapidly reproducible and sharable.
Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.
Leadership Development - 15/15 ptsLeadership Development - 15/15 pts
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
We bring our entire team together once a year for leadership training and team building. Our leaders are encouraged to attend training conferences/events that help them in their specific job. When we hired our Director for Mission Advancement (DMA), we also provided her with a professional coach to consult with weekly and to continue to learn professional, comprehensive development “best practices.”
Mobilizing for Mission - 15/15 ptsMobilizing for Mission - 15/15 pts
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
Strategic Partnerships
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness
Community Building
We create working partnerships with multiple like-minded mission organizations, seminaries, denominational leaders, interdenominational alliance organizations, along with hospitals, doctors, and pregnancy help medical organizations to promote pregnancy health around the world. We draft jointly planned, specific, scheduled, and measurable programs with these partners. Such joint efforts include training their networks of pastors or students, mentoring their designee to do what we do without needing us further, and providing financial underwriting that allows them to train church leaders nation-wide and/or provide materials or equipment (like ultrasound equipment and fetal models) for those providing pregnancy help services in needy places.
Adaptability Story - 30/30 ptsAdaptability Story - 30/30 pts
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
In the last 12 months, in response to COVID-19 restrictions, we have adopted virtual training methods and have started to build indigenous, full-time leadership teams in key countries. We implemented COVID-19-sensitive “limited seating” training formats, created a virtual conference, and hosted virtual fundraising events. In addition, given the problems of shipping from China due to COVID-19, we designed a medically-accurate fetal model that will allow us in 2022, to manufacture this medical/educational resource anywhere in which we can still travel and train. Finally, we translated the PassionLife website into Spanish that now distributes resources and video training throughout Latin America.
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Accountability & Finance
Culture & Community
Leadership & Adaptability
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