Lifestream Global Ministries
Legal name: Lifestream Global Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455491680
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Cerritos, CA, USA
- Phone
- (562)-474-8701
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $161,531
- Expenses
- $140,854
- Assets
- $83,123
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THEL BRINGAS (President)
- CHI-CHUNG KEUNG (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- THEL BRINGAS (President)
- CHI-CHUNG KEUNG (Vice President)
- PAUL O'BRIEN (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To demonstrate the Lord's love in tangible ways to the poor, the distressed and, under-privileged through Education & Food Nutrition, Medical, Dental, and Vision care, Spiritual and leadership development, and Livelihood programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
PART III, Line 28 Statement of Program Service AccomplishmentsProgram 1: Ministerial Activities Support Program:$ 105,587.The financial assistance we sent helped our L.I.F.E. churches, not only with their community outreaches but also with the care of Gods people and Gods House. When two of our ministry partners went to visit the thriving work in LIFE Tanauan, they wereprompted to help finish the building that was ruined by the eruption of Taal Volcano. Besides that huge project, the Lord provided resources to assist six pastors in Mindanao, two pastors in Luzon and to help with the general operations of the National Office to oversee 15 churches and 10 outreaches in various places in Mindanao. Work among the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) group expanded from Maitum- General Santos to Sarangani and Palimbang, Cotabato-Mindanao with worship services being held in homes.LIFE churches held their VBS or Kids Summer Bible Fest (KSBF) with 40 trained teachers and volunteer workers to serve more than 525 children in Mindanao, culminating with the Back to School program where children enjoyed lunches and received back packs with school supplies. In Luzon, in partnership with Operation Christmas Child, around 300 children from various Barangay received Shoebox gifts and were introduced to the Greatest Gift the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This opened the opportunity for churches to begin visiting the childrens homes and connecting with their families. The Greatest Journey discipleship program was launched a month after to encourage spiritual growth and equip the kids to share the gospel to their parents.Our latest mission outreach is in Brgy. Rizal, Bauan, Batangas which is slowly growing inattendance with 12 to 15 adults participating in the main service. Kids Church is equally thriving with an average of 14 to 15 children and 2 to 5 youth attending each week. Every Thursday, 8 Life groups and personal visitations are being done; as a result, 4 new believers are now actively attending the gatherings. We also contributed to the worldwide ministries of Foursquare Missions Press and BCWM (Bringing Christ to the World through Missions) in Binan City, Laguna to encourage missionaries, pastors and lay workers in their service for Christ.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets have declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 91.9%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 91.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $129K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.