Bethlehem Baptist Church

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
752427554
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Deberry, TX, USA
Phone
9036901360
Rating
43
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$42,923
Expenses
$34,924
Assets
$113,022
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHARON WILLIAMS (PRESIDENT)
  • DELILAH WILLIAMS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LINDA BURNS (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LOLA WILLIAMS (SECRETARY/BOARD MEMBER)
  • JOHN WILLIAMS (DEACON/BOARD MEMBER)
  • ELZIE HICKS (PASTOR)

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

We are a church, a religious organization, established to support our community.

What it reported doing in 2025

The 'Blessed Bags' food drive program directly combated regional food insecurity by preparing and distributing comprehensive grocery care packages to over 60 families. Distributions included essential pantry staples, non-perishable canned goods, shelf-stable proteins, and dry goods, alongside fresh seasonal produce, dairy items, and bakery goods when available. To further support household well-being, the drive also provided critical personal hygiene products, household cleaning supplies, and baby essentials to low-income and crisis-impacted individuals. Operations were centered in DeBerry, Texas, successfully expanding vital relief coverage across Panola County, neighboring East Texas counties, and adjacent rural Louisiana parishes.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 4
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 4.3%; rating input score 4
  • Program expense ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 5

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.24; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 50.8%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 32.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 4.3% of revenue deployed · 5.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.