Laurelville Retreat Center
Legal name: Laurelville Mennonite Church Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 251060165
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Mt Pleasant, PA, United States
- Phone
- 724-423-2056
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,437,737
- Expenses
- $2,226,060
- Assets
- $7,751,212
- Liabilities
- $271,849
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LARRY MILLER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEANETTE LAHM (EXECUTIVE DI): $100,212 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Laurelville Retreat Center’s mission is to provide a peaceful natural setting to reconnect, refresh, renew, and encounter Christ-like hospitality. Our Core Values. Laurelville’s history continues to be celebrated—and its future, shaped— by those who have supported it through prayer, volunteer time and energy, and financial gifts. From the very beginning Laurelville has been owned by a group of families, known as the Association. Currently consisting of nearly 300 families, this group meets annually for Association meetings, appoints a board of directors to provide organizational oversight, provides financial assistance for scholarships and building projects, and promotes Laurelville around the country. Laurelville Retreat Center 75th Anniversary Video.
What it reported doing in 2025
The major program service activity is providing a physical setting for christian service group activities, seminars, and retreats. Food, lodging and recreation facilities are included in the activity. Central to its purpose, we recognize the organization's special calling to provide a hospitable, natural setting and activities for ministry to enable persons to enjoy god's gifts, to grow in god's love, and to explore the meaning of life in response to christ's invitation to share god's all-encompassing peace. Purpose accomplishment; every guest experiences god and wholistic renewal in a christian retreat environment; invidiuals commit or renew committment to christ; individuals and groups discern god's will in a safe place; guests build and strengthen relationships and community; congregations and other christian groups fulfill their goals; all who come experience god's love and generosity through christian hospitality and service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.48; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 89.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.