Agape Love from Above to Our Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611591692
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Bloomsburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5703172210
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,359,736
- Expenses
- $5,452,261
- Assets
- $2,503,346
- Liabilities
- $191,303
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JODI BERRY (PRESIDENT)
- BEN TITMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KARLA ALEXANDER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KARLA ALEXANDER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $52,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Agape: love from above to our community is a non-profit, faith based, non-denominational ministry that serves local communities throughout columbia and mountour counties Pennsylvania. Agape provides a central location for community residents in need. We serve in the name of jesus christ; respond, as called, to our community's needs through education, material and financial assistance, networking, referrals, coordination, disaster/emergency relief, and service; share god's word with practicality; fellowship through supportive christian relationships; maintain confidentiality of those we serve, and, as appropriate, share the gospel, through our words and conduct, with all who enter our doors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Agape: love from above to our community provides financial and non-financial assistance, spiritual guidance, education, referrals and direction to members of the community in need. Agape: love from above to our community also encourages fellowship and friendship by providing hot meals to all members of the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 87% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $114.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 93.7%; rating input score 94; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.7% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 30 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.