Center & Library for the Bible and Social Justice
Legal name: Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271506168
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Stony Point, NY, United States
- Phone
- 845-603-2508
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies & Associations
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,499
- Expenses
- $76,942
- Assets
- $712
- Liabilities
- $709
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- AMY DALTON (EXECUTIVE DI)
- REV NICHOLAS JOHNSON (PRES & BOARD)
- REV DR DONG HYEON JEONG (BOARD CO-SEC)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice (CLBSJ) connects biblically informed activists and justice-oriented scholars through critical, creative and contextual education initiatives aimed at forging empowering uses of the Bible for enacting social justice today. Our biggest hope is that CLBSJ will aid in connecting and cross-fertilizing projects and activities of scholars, students, clergy, activists, and community organizers who currently tend to work separately and without the rich resources and insights they can offer one another. If you or your congregation or organization are engaged in reclaiming the Bible for justice — through research, preaching, teaching, or representing scripture in the streets, we would love to connect with you, learn about your work, and discuss how we can support each other. Please find options for connecting at clbsj.org/connect. About...
What it reported doing in 2024
Educational programming we curate online educational programming on topics and problems central to furthering the critical study of the bible and other sacred texts and empowering liberatory engagement with the scripture in movements for social justice. These events are free and open to the public.
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -75.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.