A Living Letter Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472465842
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Medford, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5036222411
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,906
- Expenses
- $83,923
- Assets
- $30,443
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Andrew Berryessa (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Andrew Berryessa (Executive Director)
- Andrew Wade (Board Chair)
- Aaron Brown (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
A Living Letter exists to help equip the Church to respond to issues of sexual brokenness with Truth and Love.
What it reported doing in 2025
The main "programs" of A Living Letter Ministries are public presentations, private consultations, and the production of resources all for the purpose to help the Christian Church, both corporately and individually embrace the Gospel mandates of truth and love in response to sexual brokenness and its impact both inside and outside the walls of the church.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 1.2%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 65.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.