Bethel Life Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272762983
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
East Stroudsburg, PA, USA
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$69,900
Expenses
$35,977
Assets
$69,448
Liabilities
$1,700

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jose Fernandez (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jose Fernandez (President)
  • Yolanda Fernandez (VP)
  • Daisy Oquendo (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

Bethel Life Center is organized exclusively for charitable religious educational and scientific purposes under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue code of 1986 or corresponding sections of any future federal tax code. Specifically Bethel Life Center is organized to propagate the Christian Faith and disseminate the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the Holy Scriptures. To glorify God by conducting religious services and teaching preaching and training people in the truth of Gods Word the Bible calling people to repentance from sin and to faith in Christ making disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ and edifying the Body of Christ.

What it reported doing in 2025

Back to School Event - Served the community with free lunch and water. Provide free backpacks with school supplies such as notebooks pens pencils sharpeners coloring books crayons etc. to around 180 kids in the community.

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.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 22
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 15.8%; rating input score 16
  • Program expense ratio: 30.7%; rating input score 31

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: 48.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.93; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 25.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 15.8% of revenue deployed · 30.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.