Faith Outreach Apostolic Churches Worldwide, Inc.
Legal name: Faith Outreach Apostolic Churches Worldwide Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061354975
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bridgeport, CT, United States
- Phone
- 203-330-1023
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $218,917
- Expenses
- $190,706
- Assets
- $182,174
- Liabilities
- $59,303
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYNTHIA BELLAMY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CYNTHIA BELLAMY (PRESIDENT)
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
Faith Outreach Apostolic Church provides home and foreign field mission and outreach—encouraging, engaging, and educating people through spiritually positive support (including food pantry support), and sharing the gospel/mission to help address hunger and other needs. Home and Foreign Field Mission Statement “ _For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying Thou shalt_ _open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.” Deuteronomy 15:11_ Our mission for the Home and Foreign Field is to encourage, engage and educate all whom we encounter by having meaningful and spiritually positive support for individuals, families, communities, missions, and evangelism. We believe fellowship and collaboration internally and externally are essential to fulfilling our mission and Kingdom building.
What it reported doing in 2024
Non profit church organization providing weekly services for it's members. Members donations used to support the cost of the church and run events for members spiritual growth and help people in need.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $191K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.