Bethel Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861095024
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4052863700
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Housing Development, Construction, Management
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $708,607
- Expenses
- $474,806
- Assets
- $735,541
- Liabilities
- $794,921
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MIKE HAYS (BOARD MEMBER)
- MONICA LOPEZ (INTERNATIONL)
- LYNDA K POWELL (EXECUTIVE DI)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to uplift and empower individuals in need by providing free food, clothing, essential items, housing, education assistance, kid camps, and various other community programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation provided services to 2,700 clients through their various programs throughout the year. Bethel holds a spring conference for single mother's which focuses on providing the necessary tools for success. Bethel provides a "grace" scholarship which is intended to assist mom's with tuition costs for higher education. Angels for moms allows individuals to adopt a child for christmas so that no child goes without a gift on christmas morning. Rab rab's birthday club provides children of single mothers: balloons, a birthday cake, and a bag of goodies on their birthday. Kids rock camp is a "healthy lifestyle camp" for 3rd-5th graders. Camp sonlight is an outdoor adventure camp held for boys ages 6-11. Sassy camp is provided to young women ages 10-14 who are daughters of single mothers to help with nutrition, self-esteem and team building. Artsy doodle camp is an educational culture camp for 6-11 year olds. Camp radiance is an outdoor adventure camp for girls 6-12 years old.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 95%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 33%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.08; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 95% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $451K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.