IBCD (The Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship)
Legal name: Institute for Biblical Counseling & Discipleship
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832914684
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Slidell, LA, United States
- Phone
- 6084924223
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $207,448
- Expenses
- $203,314
- Assets
- $294,527
- Liabilities
- $4,416
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- James R Newheiser Jr (President/ Director)
Highest reported compensation
- James R Newheiser Jr (President/ Director): $600 total reported compensation
- Scott Mehl (Managing Director): $600 total reported compensation
- Don Roy (Training Center Director): $400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
IBCD exists to strengthen churches in one-another care by offering training through its Care & Discipleship program, counseling resources, events, and free resources that help people better help others. These benefits are our way of expressing gratitude for your ongoing support and commitment to our mission of strengthening churches through one-another care. We’re incredibly grateful for your partnership and look forward to continuing our journey together as Supporting Partners. Become a Partner! What You’ll Receive:. We believe this happens within the context of the local church, and that pastors are the shepherds entrusted with soul care (1 Pet 5:1-4; Heb 13:17). The qualified counselors on staff at IBCD focus on strengthening the church by producing high quality resources and training materials. We do not provide counsel. If your pastor would like assistance in helping you, you...
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide local biblical counseling, training, and resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 2 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $176K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $600 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.