Iglesia De Dios Aguas En El Desierto

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824522750
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Freeport, NY, USA
Phone
5168657611
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,967
Expenses
$40,459
Assets
$264,438
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Pastor Mata (President)

People named in this filing

  • Cristina Fernandez (Trustees)
  • Jaime Lazo (Trustees)
  • Anagil Mata (Trustees)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The corporation is organized exclusively for religious and charitable purposes, more specifically to promote the teaching of the full gospel of jesus christ among members and non-members; to preach the gospel of our lord; and the develoment of the christian character.

What it reported doing in 2025

To ordain our ministers, preachers, pastors, evangelists, apostles and christian workers granting them such titles as the chuch may find necessary accoding to its constitution and by-laws. The corporation shall have members; however all authority shall be vested in a board of directors. The board of directors is the policy making body and may exercise all the powers and outhority granted to the coporation by law. Said corpporation is organized exclusively for religious purposes, and will be operated exclusively for those purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt orgnizations under section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code, or the corresponding of any futures federal tax code.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 12
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.54; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -24.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.