Launch Global 
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Summary
Never in the history of the church has there been such great potential to flood the nations with witnesses for Christ as we have today. Worldwide, there are over 1,000 churches for every remaining unreached people group. The need of the hour is to mobilize and train believers to multiply disciples where there are no churches. Launch Global staff work as a team with church leaders to awaken and prepare their members to go multiply disciples and churches among the unreached. We are not primarily a sending agency; our main objective is to connect well-prepared laborers with strategic opportunities through churches, agencies, and sending ministries to catalyze Church Planting Movements among the unreached.
We love the Bride of Christ and exist to see her thriving, transforming communities, and raising up worshipers in every nation, tribe, language and people.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Launch Global
PO Box 830650
Richardson, TX 75083
Website: launchglobal.org
Phone: 214-301-3092
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 203826376
CEO/President: Brian Zaas
Chairman: Drew Rickets
Board size: 5
Founder:
Ruling year: 2005
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 12/31
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 2018
Purpose
Our passion: helping you discover God's will, develop as a disciple-maker, and deploy for maximum impact. Our vision is to see God ignite a movement of young adults who are consumed with a vision and passion to see every ethnic people group reached with the good news of Jesus Christ in this generation.
Mission statement
Launch Global exists to mobilize churches to develop laborers and leaders who multiply healthy churches among unreached people groups.
Statement of faith
THE SCRIPTURES
We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, and that the Old and New Testaments are supernaturally inspired, inerrant in the original writing, infallible, and the final authority for all Christian faith, life, and conduct for every age.
THE GODHEAD
We believe in one God, the Creator of all things, who is infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
THE FATHER
We believe that God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth. As Creator of everything out of nothing, His glory is manifested in creation, and He made humans in His image.
THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ, without any change in His eternal Deity, became man, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men. We believe Christ accomplished our redemption through His atoning death on the cross as a perfect and complete sacrifice, and our justification is made sure by His shed blood and His literal physical resurrection from the dead. We believe Jesus Christ ascended into heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where as our High Priest and Head of the Church, He acts as our Intercessor, Advocate, and will one day return and reign forever.
THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the untameable presence of God on earth who gives spiritual gifts to His people. Like a wind that blows wherever it wishes, His ways are mysterious, powerful, and necessary for any hope of eternal transformation from death to life. He is the ultimate Helper; He glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ and convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. We believe that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration at conversion, baptizing all believers into the Body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them until the Day of Redemption. We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Divine Teacher, who guides believers in all truth, and that He fills and empowers believers for Godly living, passionate worship, and willing service.
THE CONDITION OF MAN
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin, the entire race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God. We believe that man is totally depraved, lost, and of himself completely unable to remedy his lost condition. However, God's plan of redemption was promised to His first people in assuring them that someone would come and crush the head of Satan.
SALVATION
We believe that salvation, with its forgiveness of sins, its regeneration unto a new nature, and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works, baptism, or man's effort. We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to men by grace and is received by repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose atoning death and resurrection provide the only ground of justification and salvation. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept in God's power and thus secure in Christ forever. We also believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation as stated in God's Word, but to realize that sin may interrupt the joy of the believer's fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of the Heavenly Father.
THE CHURCH
We believe that the Church is the body and espoused Bride of Christ. The purpose of the Church is to glorify God in joyful worship, compassionate acts of mercy, and extending His kingdom to all nations. We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures.
SATAN
We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the author of sin, and cause of the fall; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire.
THE ETERNAL STATE
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to eternal judgment and everlasting punishment. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are at death absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await their resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth.
MISSIONS
We believe that God is a missional God whose desire for all nations to know Him has been outlined from Genesis to Revelation. Members of every tribe, tongue, language, and people will worship Him someday. Therefore, it is the obligation and privilege of the saved to witness by life and word to the truths of the Scriptures, to seek to proclaim the gospel, and in turn, make disciples of all nations.
Some of these statements are based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism.
Donor confidence score
Transparency grade
A
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Evangelism Support
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 223 of 1118 | 10 of 35 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 293 of 1119 | 8 of 35 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 496 of 1119 | 17 of 35 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 319 of 1118 | 12 of 35 |
Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 6% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 6% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 98% | 99% | 99% | 100% | 99% | 100% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 5% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 2% | 1% | 1% | 0% | 1% | 0% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 84% | 84% | 86% | 85% | 84% | 84% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 97% | 101% | 92% | 80% | 90% | 90% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 80% | 85% | 79% | 69% | 76% | 76% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 3% | -1% | 8% | 20% | 10% | 10% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 5% | -2% | 15% | 41% | 27% | 29% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 12% | 12% | 13% | 14% | 16% | 16% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.23 | 1.73 | 1.59 | 1.63 | 2.42 | 2.57 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.33 | 1.01 | 1.01 | 1.02 | 1.03 | 1.00 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 1.70 | 1.74 | 1.60 | 1.65 | 2.50 | 2.58 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 31.37 | 23.37 | 19.56 | 22.98 | 15.70 | 21.06 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.05 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 6.59 | 6.59 | 7.11 | 6.94 | 4.49 | 4.43 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 7% | 4% | 5% | 4% | 6% | 5% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 78% | 55% | 60% | 59% | 39% | 37% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| Cash | $5,713,461 | $5,300,525 | $4,898,591 | $2,876,564 | $2,133,280 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $61,617 | $629,616 | $50,619 | $30,321 | $16,111 |
| Short-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $5,775,078 | $5,930,141 | $4,949,210 | $2,906,885 | $2,149,391 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $21,578 | $40,907 | $70,343 | $87,039 | $10,048 |
| Other long-term assets | $12,500 | $4,419 | $4,799 | $12,927 | $0 |
| Total long-term assets | $34,078 | $45,326 | $75,142 | $99,966 | $10,048 |
| Total assets | $5,809,156 | $5,975,467 | $5,024,352 | $3,006,851 | $2,159,439 |
| Liabilities | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $247,094 | $303,162 | $215,339 | $185,143 | $102,083 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $247,094 | $303,162 | $215,339 | $185,143 | $102,083 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $9,758 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $9,758 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $256,852 | $303,162 | $215,339 | $185,143 | $102,083 |
| Net assets | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| Without donor restrictions | $5,387,349 | $5,465,821 | $4,530,097 | $2,821,708 | $2,057,356 |
| With donor restrictions | $164,955 | $206,484 | $278,916 | $0 | $0 |
| Net assets | $5,552,304 | $5,672,305 | $4,809,013 | $2,821,708 | $2,057,356 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| Total contributions | $9,875,534 | $10,289,126 | $10,157,995 | $7,991,204 | $6,110,066 |
| Program service revenue | $27,183 | $38,621 | $4,953 | $19,028 | $22,305 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $42,261 | $26,855 | $7,488 | $28,344 | $6,887 |
| Other revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $965 |
| Total other revenue | $69,444 | $65,476 | $12,441 | $47,372 | $30,157 |
| Total revenue | $9,944,978 | $10,354,602 | $10,170,436 | $8,038,576 | $6,140,223 |
| Expenses | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| Program services | $8,498,528 | $8,188,955 | $6,996,102 | $6,126,041 | $4,656,466 |
| Management and general | $1,194,738 | $1,215,280 | $1,173,755 | $1,148,183 | $886,792 |
| Fundraising | $371,713 | $87,075 | $13,274 | $0 | $0 |
| Total expenses | $10,064,979 | $9,491,310 | $8,183,131 | $7,274,224 | $5,543,258 |
| Change in net assets | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
| Surplus (deficit) | ($120,001) | $863,292 | $1,987,305 | $764,352 | $596,965 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | ($120,001) | $863,292 | $1,987,305 | $764,352 | $596,965 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Robert McNabb | Executive Director | $182,075 |
| Barry Morehead | COO | $141,334 |
| Laura Appling | Treasurer/CFO | $115,285 |
Compensation data as of: 12/31/2022
Response from ministry
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The information below was provided to MinistryWatch by the ministry itself. It was last updated 12/21/2023. To update the information below, please email: [email protected]