Abbeyfest Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473626415
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location
Paoli, PA, USA
Phone
6102205084
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$331,429
Expenses
$395,550
Assets
$4,199
Liabilities
$3,234

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • FATHER STEVE ALBERO (DIRECTOR)
  • FATHER JOHN DONIA (DIRECTOR)
  • HANK FILA (VICE CHAIR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Abbeyfest ministries, inc. Will abide in joyful communion with the apostolic tradition of the roman catholic church and remaining faithful to her ecclesiastical magisterium, including, without limitation to undertake and perform the actions necessary and appropriate to evangelize, to preserve, to strengthen and to educate families in the teachings of the roman catholic church in all their beauty by offering public outreach concerts, worship and prayer activities, family gatherings, small group faith sharing and service works.

What it reported doing in 2025

Founded in 2014, abbeyfest ministries (afm) is an independent 501 (c)(3) non-profit lay organization. The purpose of abbeyfest: faith, music, and family concerts and festivals are to provide people of all ages, singles, married and families an opportunity to encounter jesus christ through the beauty of faith-filled music, inspiring prayer, and joyful celebration of our faith. Our premier abbeyfest event is our yearly one-day festival in late september, we recently held our 9th festival, that attracts 4,000 people annually for a celebration of contemporary catholic/christian music in the greater philadelphia area. Abbeyfest provides a festival atmosphere with hundreds of christian vendors, food trucks, confession, mass and candlelight adoration. In conjunction with the festival, we also provide inspirational speakers to area high schools to encourage teens to pursue their faith with passion and purpose. Additionally, throughout the year, afm hosts special evenings of praise and worship music and concerts with major christian contemporary artists to provide a venue for faith and musical experiences. Afm is a total volunteer organization with no paid staff. Our volunteers soley plan, sponsor, raise funding, manage, stage, produce and administrate all afm efforts. Over 190,000 is raised yearly with all proceeds from ticket sales, sponsorships and donations reinvested to support the yearly festival, evenings of worship and afm artist series.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $338K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.