Charity profile · Historical source record

Church World Service

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Transform communities around the globe through just & sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement & disasters
Founded in 1946, Church World Service is a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disasters. CWS meets disaster relief and recovery needs, facilitates sustainable social and economic development, provides assistance and resettlement services to refugees and helps address the root causes of hunger. A cooperative ministry of 37 Christian denominations and communions, CWS sponsors community-wide CROP Hunger Walks across the U.S. to raise awareness and fund to help end hunger locally and globally.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

83.94Overall score
out of 100
77.50Financial score
out of 100
97.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$66,126,170
Total expenses · USD$65,527,734

Program expenses

$59,302,599.27 recorded amount
90.5%

Fundraising expenses

$3,538,497.64 recorded amount
5.4%

Administrative expenses

$2,621,109.36 recorded amount
4.0%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.05 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
Rev John L. McCullough
Recorded compensation
$272,131.00
Recorded compensation percentage
0.41%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Church World Service
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
97.0
category
Category
International
description
Mission & description
Founded in 1946, Church World Service is a faith-based organization transforming communities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disasters. CWS meets disaster relief and recovery needs, facilitates sustainable social and economic development, provides assistance and resettlement services to refugees and helps address the root causes of hunger. A cooperative ministry of 37 Christian denominations and communions, CWS sponsors community-wide CROP Hunger Walks across the U.S. to raise awareness and fund to help end hunger locally and globally.
ein
EIN
13-4080201
tot_exp
Total expenses
65527734.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.04
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.05
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.054000000000000006
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.905
fscore
Financial score
77.5
leader
Recorded leader
Rev John L. McCullough
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
272131.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0040999999999999995
motto
Tagline
Transform communities around the globe through just & sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement & disasters
name
Charity name
Church World Service
tot_rev
Total revenue
66126170.0
score
Overall score
83.94
state
State code
IN
subcategory
Subcategory
Development and Relief Services
size
Source size label
big
program_exp
Program expenses
59302599.27
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
3538497.6360000004
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
2621109.36

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.