Orthodox Christian Laity

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
363618846
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Phone
5615850245
Rating confidence
Limited
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$83,820
Expenses
$111,636
Assets
$439,121

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • William Souvall (President)
  • William Caras (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Judy Blebea (Board Member)
  • John Blebea (Board Member)
  • William Souvall (President)

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

OCL is a pan-Orthodox educational and advocacy ministry formed in 1987 to: advocate for the restoration and strengthening of the historic role of thelaity in the conciliar governance of the Orthodox Church in the United States; support the spiritual renewal and regeneration of the Orthodox ChristianChurch in the United States in its Apostolic Mission; advocate for and promote transparency and accountability in the governance of the OrthodoxChurch in the United States; advocate for and champion the establishment of an administratively and canonically-unified, self-governing autocephalousOrthodox Christian Church in the United States

What it reported doing in 2025

OCL held its in-person 38th Annual Board Meeting and Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, featuring presentations by four speakers coming from New Jersey, Tennessee and California related to topics of Orthodox Christian Unity in the United States and posted video recordings of all the sessions on OCL's YouTube channel.

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
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -33.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.93; rating input score 80; 80th 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: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -19.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.