Serenity Pastoral Counseling

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
872392930
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Belmont, NC, USA
Phone
7042555245
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Association

Reported finances

Revenue
$157,057
Expenses
$140,588
Assets
$46,409

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rev Chris Westmoreland (President)

People named in this filing

  • Shelton Davis (Executive Dir.)
  • Rev Chris Westmoreland (President)
  • Carrie Jones (Director)

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

Serenity Pastoral Counseling, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) corporation with a mission to provide professional, pastoral counseling to our clients, without regard for the clients ability to pay for services.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, we were able to provide more than 1100 hours of counseling to more than 58 clients. More than 44 percent of our hours were completed with those benefited by our Client Assistance Fund and sliding scale. We have maintained the highest levels of accountability in our funding by keeping separate accounts for operations and Client Assistance, with donations only going into the Client Assistance Fund and once-monthly withdrawals to fund the individual counseling needs of our clients. All other fees and bills flow through the operating account. Our board of directors has been active in helping to build our non-profit through individual fund-raising efforts, personal contributions, and the donation of their professional services. As our fifth full year of operations proceeds, we are moving forward with the intent to help each client who comes to us with his or her counseling needs, leaving each with healing and hope.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue 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: 8
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 8.1%; rating input score 8
  • Program expense ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 9

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 93.2%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -35.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 8.1% of revenue deployed · 9.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 8/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.