World Help 
Summary
World Help is a faith-based, humanitarian organization that serves the physical and spiritual needs of people in impoverished communities around the world.
World Help believes strongly in using national partners to accomplish its mission. World Help recognizes that nationals know their own culture better than they ever could. Nationals know the needs of their people intimately. So, World Help joins with their partners to bring communities, families, and especially children the help they need.
Note: 2011 Information extracted from the Audited Financial Statement has been restated to reflect changes to the AFS.
Contact information
Mailing address:
PO Box 501
Forest, VA 24551-4551
Website: www.worldhelp.net
Phone: (800) 541-6691
Email: info@worldhelp.net
Organization details
EIN: 541615454
CEO/President: Dr. Vernon Brewer
Chairman: Mr. Lester Taylor
Board size: 16
Founder: Dr. Vernon Brewer
Year founded: 1991
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 03/31
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 1993
Purpose
World Help is an inter-denominational independent missions organization dedicated to lifting up the name of Jesus Christ by evangelizing those who have never heard, ministering to human need, discipling believers into local churches, and equipping them to fulfill the Great Commission. World Help focuses on persecuted countries and reaching out in the 10/40 Window. The ministry carries out its programs and projects in a number of ways, including: evangelism, discipleship, disaster relief & development, medical assistance, leadership training, child sponsorship, Christian education, as well as publishing and literature distribution. World Help promotes evangelism and supports its relief and development purposes through a network of evangelical churches and Christian ministries worldwide.
World Help is actively working with national partners within the 10-/40 Window where no churches exist. The World Help Child Sponsorship Program offers donors an opportunity to touch the life of a child who needs help. The two Children of the World choirs are comprised of 25 orphan children from five different countries, and assist in sharing the needs of children around the world. Mission is World Help's music ministry team whose aim is to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. Mission has traveled the globe, presenting the Gospel in more than 40 nations and with more than 4 million people. The Humanitarian Aid ministry of World Help seeks to meet the physical and spiritual needs of children and suffering adults worldwide. SALT (Strategic Alliances for Leadership Training) provides pastors with specialized ministry training and resources.
World Help's core values include being committed to authentic relationships and teamwork; fanatical attention to quality and detail; working with passion and enthusiasm; always doing what is right and accomplishing God-sized tasks that last for eternity. Since 1996, World Help has planted over 5600 churches in the unreached areas of the 10/40 Window. World Help currently is active in more than 50 countries worldwide. The organization was founded in 1991.
This organization is a nonprofit, contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
Mission statement
World Help uses the following mission statement to communicate its mission:
We exist to fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandment through partnering, training, helping and serving, especially in the unreached areas of the world.
Statement of faith
World Help subscribes to the following statement of faith:
We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful men, repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ results in regeneration by the Holy Spirit and that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Transparency grade
A
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Foreign Missions
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 111 of 439 | 24 of 77 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 216 of 439 | 39 of 77 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 246 of 439 | 42 of 77 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 11 of 439 | 4 of 77 |
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Median % for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 7% | 7% | 8% | 6% | 5% | 6% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 6% | 7% | 8% | 6% | 5% | 6% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 95% | 100% | 99% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 6% | 7% | 8% | 6% | 5% | 5% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 5% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Operating ratios | Median % for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 82% | 81% | 81% | 82% | 84% | 83% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 99% | 101% | 102% | 99% | 100% | 105% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 81% | 82% | 82% | 81% | 84% | 87% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 1% | -1% | -2% | 1% | 0% | -5% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 2% | -39% | -38% | 13% | -2% | -64% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 10% | 12% | 11% | 12% | 12% | 12% |
| Investing ratios | Median measure for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.27 | 11.90 | 10.51 | 8.07 | 9.05 | 7.96 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.54 | 1.30 | 1.32 | 1.29 | 1.37 | 1.36 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.45 | 15.42 | 13.84 | 10.40 | 12.41 | 10.81 |
| Liquidity ratios | Median measure for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 8.05 | 2.37 | 2.62 | 2.62 | 3.25 | 3.39 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.11 | 0.42 | 0.38 | 0.38 | 0.31 | 0.29 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 4.07 | 0.45 | 0.54 | 0.71 | 0.67 | 0.78 |
| Solvency ratios | Median % for all ministries in MW database | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 10% | 70% | 55% | 45% | 42% | 40% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 1% | 1% | 16% | 19% | 18% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 63% | 3% | 4% | 7% | 6% | 8% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Cash | $1,309,252 | $909,797 | $1,537,208 | $796,426 | $1,129,070 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $497,594 | $559,460 | $461,405 | $617,787 | $246,689 |
| Short-term investments | $988,869 | $1,129,632 | $1,001,487 | $907,431 | $937,371 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $2,795,715 | $2,598,889 | $3,000,100 | $2,321,644 | $2,313,130 |
| Long-term investments | $165,476 | $125,575 | $173,876 | $162,909 | $63,620 |
| Fixed assets | $661,167 | $698,166 | $694,409 | $699,714 | $765,324 |
| Other long-term assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term assets | $826,643 | $823,741 | $868,285 | $862,623 | $828,944 |
| Total assets | $3,622,358 | $3,422,630 | $3,868,385 | $3,184,267 | $3,142,074 |
| Liabilities | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $837,090 | $612,065 | $873,111 | $542,257 | $560,300 |
| Other current liabilities | $340,964 | $378,904 | $271,303 | $171,521 | $121,535 |
| Total current liabilities | $1,178,054 | $990,969 | $1,144,414 | $713,778 | $681,835 |
| Debt | $33,298 | $45,928 | $600,360 | $614,069 | $571,742 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $1,308,273 | $849,838 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $1,341,571 | $895,766 | $600,360 | $614,069 | $571,742 |
| Total liabilities | $2,519,625 | $1,886,735 | $1,744,774 | $1,327,847 | $1,253,577 |
| Net assets | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Unrestricted | ($1,539,118) | ($482,589) | $61,398 | $205,794 | ($143,905) |
| Temporarily restricted | $2,641,851 | $1,954,184 | $1,997,913 | $1,586,326 | $1,968,102 |
| Permanently restricted | $0 | $64,300 | $64,300 | $64,300 | $64,300 |
| Net assets | $1,102,733 | $1,535,895 | $2,123,611 | $1,856,420 | $1,888,497 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Total contributions | $42,603,119 | $35,109,529 | $31,346,150 | $28,664,140 | $23,710,385 |
| Program service revenue | $64,736 | $125,359 | $49,329 | $55,685 | $75,477 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $13,449 | $128,449 | $58,564 | $47,070 | $1,276 |
| Other revenue | $2,729 | $7,750 | $17,048 | $6,185 | $11,048 |
| Total other revenue | $80,914 | $261,558 | $124,941 | $108,940 | $87,801 |
| Total revenue | $42,684,033 | $35,371,087 | $31,471,091 | $28,773,080 | $23,798,186 |
| Expenses | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Program services | $34,907,681 | $29,068,553 | $25,509,747 | $24,094,731 | $20,728,179 |
| Management and general | $5,346,033 | $4,057,301 | $3,782,537 | $3,320,122 | $2,961,088 |
| Fundraising | $2,863,481 | $2,832,949 | $1,911,616 | $1,390,304 | $1,318,714 |
| Total expenses | $43,117,195 | $35,958,803 | $31,203,900 | $28,805,157 | $25,007,981 |
| Change in net assets | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
| Surplus (deficit) | ($433,162) | ($587,716) | $267,191 | ($32,077) | ($1,209,795) |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | ($433,162) | ($587,716) | $267,191 | ($32,077) | ($1,209,795) |
Response from ministry
Our Financial Commitment to You
World Help is committed to faithful stewardship of funds entrusted to us by donors. We promise to use gifts wisely and effectively in Christ's Name.
World Help, Inc. is a non-profit Christian organization chartered by the State of Virginia and tax exempt by the Internal Revenue Service under code section 501(c)(3). The bylaws governing this ministry direct that resources be used to reach out in love to those who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Contributions are used to accomplish this purpose.
We are committed to fulfilling the following standards:
We subscribe to a written statement of faith clearly affirming our commitment to the evangelical Christian faith.
We are governed by a responsible Board, the majority of whom are not staff members or relatives of staff members. The World Help Board meets at least semi-annually to establish policies, set budgets, oversee the organization's financial practices, and review ministry accomplishments.
We obtain an annual audit which is performed by an independent public accounting firm in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) with financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
We have a functioning audit review committee appointed by the Board, the majority of whom are not staff members or the relatives of staff members, for the purpose of reviewing the annual audit and reporting its findings to the Board.
We provide copies of our current audited financial statements upon written request.
We seek to conduct our activities with the highest standards of integrity and avoid conflicts of interest.
Our fund-raising appeals clearly identify the purposes and programs to which donations will be applied, and we ensure that donations are used for the purposes for which they are raised.
We are members in good standing of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
World Help strives to keep overhead costs to a minimum using only 9% for the administration of our various projects. Only 3% is used for fundraising with 88% for ministry projects. All gifts designated for specific purposes are used as designated.
History
World Help began in 1991,the first project that brought World Help into existence was to print and distribute Bibles in Russia, right after the fall of Communism. Since that time, World Help has distributed more than 7 million Bibles, New Testaments, and other Christian literature to public schools, churches, hospitals, military bases and orphanages in countries such as Russia, China, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Cuba. They accomplish the printing and distribution process through ministry partners in country, not only to save on shipping expenses, but their partners have access to get the Bibles into the hands of these Christian brothers and sisters.
Program accomplishments
Needs
World Help has communicated the following needs:
World Help has several special projects in need of funding. More information on these projects maybe found on their website.