New Life Ministries of Tulare County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261229599
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Tulare, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5597599723
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,349
- Expenses
- $199,276
- Assets
- $1,064
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Larry M Dodson (President)
- Grady Dodson (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Larry M Dodson (President)
- Grady Dodson (Vice-President)
- Candice Haas (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
New Life Ministries of Tulare County is a public charity. Our purpose is to come alongside people who have not been effectively served for their mental health needs. We use innovative approaches such as community events, wellness trips, and ongoing small groups where people can gather and talk about their issues. All people are welcomed to these groups.
What it reported doing in 2025
Small groups 2025- 170 people ages 2-78 participated on a weekly, semi-weekly, or monthly basis. New Life Ministries of Tulare County (NLMTC) focuses on an Early Intervention program geared towards people in danger of becoming homeless, committing suicide, becoming incarcerated, preventing school failure, falling into unemployment, and preventing removal of children from their homes. Our small groups program takes the approach of creating supportive and non-judgmental safe spaces for people to take part in open discussions. NLMTC's mediators draw from personal life stories to share their own success stories of how they were able to overcome life obstacles. The sharing of personal life success stories gives hope to the small group attendees that they, too, can succeed. Small groups work from the premise that sharing personal challenges with each other and giving and receiving each others feedback helps to aid in creating solutions.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 70.3%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 38.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -129.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 70.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $140K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.