Maritime Bethel Savannah
Legal name: Maritime Bethel of Savannah Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260345601
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Garden City, GA, USA
- Phone
- 9122011099
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $274,946
- Expenses
- $110,901
- Assets
- $425,461
- Liabilities
- $160,499
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEAN BURNETTE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN HOUCHENS (DIRECTOR): $35,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through both word and action, we provide spiritual care, fellowship, and practical support to those who spend months at sea, often far from family and community. Our goal is to be a welcoming presence, offering encouragement, prayers, and resources to help meet their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. when Rev. Andy Krey, who had been serving seafarers since 1969, founded **Maritime Bethel Savannah**. From its founding until his retirement in March 2020, Andy served as Chaplain and Executive Director of Maritime Bethel. With a deep commitment to the “people of the sea,” Andy established Martime Bethel as a place of support, and spiritual guidance. In March 2020, leadership passed to John Houchens, who now serves as Executive Director. Together with new Board Members and trusted advisors, John continues to build upon the strong foundation Andy created, ensuring that Maritime...
What it reported doing in 2025
Our mission is to bring each seafarer good news and help meet his or her spiritual, emotional, and physical needs - all in the name of christ.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.7%; rating input score 19
- Program expense ratio: 46.5%; rating input score 46
- Fundraising efficiency: $41.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.7%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.84; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 18.7% of revenue deployed · 46.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.