BStronglife Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822047076
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Nipomo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8058968972
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,352
- Expenses
- $79,383
- Assets
- $15,811
- Liabilities
- $45,608
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ralph Hernandez (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Ralph Hernandez (CEO)
- Kathleen Hernandez (Secretary)
- Ken Wolff (CFO)
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
Educate, empower and engage students on their values through biblical principles and the power of Jesus.
What it reported doing in 2025
Description for Line 28 -990-EZ - 2025 BStronglife Campus Clubs In 2025 BStronglife Campus Clubs conducted 149 lunchtime club meetings on four high school campuses (Nipomo High School, Central Coast New Tech High School, Arroyo Grande High School and Santa Maria High School) and one junior high, El Camino Junior High. BStronglife Campus Club reaches more than 300 high school and junior high students weekly, bringing special speakers and messages that teach leadership principles based on the Bible and includes speakers that address such issues as anti-bullying, drug prevention, and suicide awareness. BStronglife also hosted various community outreach events where students can earn community service hours (a prerequisite for graduation in some school districts). In 2025 BStronglife hosted the Olde Towne Nipomo Family Christmas event which draws crowds of between 8 and 10 thousand for the single day event. More than 90 students from high schools around the Central Coast come to the event to earn community service hours serving as game hosts in Candyland Village, elves for visits/photos with Santa, crowd control, traffic control for the parade, banner carriers for the parade, set-up and tear-down crew, sanitation crew, sound and lighting tech for various entertainment stages, dcor prep and tear down, and various other tasks. BStronglife provided more than 600 hours of community service time to 92 participating students. BStronglife is also the host of Kids Day in the Park Egg Hunt which serves approximately 800 children. Students from 3 different high schools participated in the event, helping with egg seeding, crowd control, set-up and tear-down and much more. In 2025, 45 students earned community service hours totaling more than 225 hours. BStronglife also held a street clean-up day in April. BStronglife has adopted three streets in Nipomo through the San Luis Obispo County Adopt-A-Road program. Students assisted in April of 2025 to pick-up garbage on South Frontage Road, Hill Street and Mary Street in Nipomo. Additionally, BStronglife Clubs hold special breakfast events or ice cream parties for teachers, classified employees, janitorial, administration and all staff at four high schools and one junior high as part of Teacher Appreciation Week. These activities are directly connected to BStrongLife's exempt purpose of educating, empowering, and engaging students on their values through biblical principles and the power of Jesus. BStrongLife Clubs operate on school campuses and depend on the cooperation, goodwill, and active support of school administration and staff to maintain access to students and conduct their faith-based programs. Teacher Appreciation Week events serve to cultivate and sustain these essential relationships, enabling BStrongLife to continue its student-focused mission. Without the ongoing partnership and support of school personnel, BStrongLife's ability to reach and serve its student beneficiaries would be substantially impaired. Finally, in August of 2025 BStronglife held for the first time a leadership training day for officers and Ambassadors (the planning leadership team for BStronglife Club) 22 students participated in the day long event that included a nationally recognized leadership speaker from the Council on Leadership and a host of leadership inspired activities that created team bonding and vision for life success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.2%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 68.6%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.1%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.88; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.2% of revenue deployed · 68.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.