Lifering Christian Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844981750
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Rehrersburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7176394438
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,174
- Expenses
- $4,910
- Assets
- $3,751
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- J ANTHONY HERTZLER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- J ANTHONY HERTZLER (PRESIDENT)
- JUDY CROUTCH BEACHY (VICE PRESIDE)
- AMANDA MUSSER (TREASURER)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lifering christain ministries, inc. Shall exist to share the hope of the gospel with individuals broken by domestic violence in an anabaptist setting by providing resources and consulting to churches, victims of domestic violence, and perpetrators of domestic violence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Domestic violence seminar
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.4%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 28.4%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.6%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.4% of revenue deployed · 28.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.