Bell Tower Counseling
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861728621
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Seattle, WA, United States
- Phone
- 206.502.5941
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,061,037
- Expenses
- $987,463
- Assets
- $334,223
- Liabilities
- $2,121
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Caewyn Barnett (Vice President & Counselor)
- Katherine Ribera (Executive Director, President, & Counselor)
Highest reported compensation
- Caewyn Barnett (Vice President & Counselor): $84,189 total reported compensation
- Katherine Ribera (Executive Director, President, & Counselor): $41,798 total reported compensation
- Jared Michonski (Director): $2,457 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We have several therapists on our team who are equipped to work with children, teens, and families on the concerns that often bring them to seek counseling. This includes support for mental health concerns such as anxiety, OCD, ADHD, or depression, as well as emotional and relational issues like divorce or other home life difficulties. We would feel privileged to walk with your child or family as you navigate these challenging seasons. Groups From time to time, Bell Tower Counseling offers groups and classes for those wanting to work through the healing process in a community with others dealing with the same struggles. Group counseling can present a number of benefits to those seeking heali.
What it reported doing in 2025
Conference Activities: Hosted two educational conferences open to the community for about 85 attendees to learn about mental health topics and useful skills for managing these concerns in an affordable and more accessible format than what weekly individual counseling is able to provide. For 2025, conference activities were inactive.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 84% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th 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: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.9%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $951K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.