The Fellowship of Ailbe

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205953783
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Essex, VT, USA
Phone
8653851081
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Religion Related N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$98,507
Expenses
$99,074
Assets
$33,593
Liabilities
$6,979

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

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

People named in this filing

  • PATRICK TIEDT (DIRECTOR)
  • SUSIE MOORE (SECRETARY)
  • RALPH ELMERICK (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

The fellowship of ailbe is a ministry to pastors and church leaders whose focus is on encouraging men to grow in the grace of the lord, and equipping them for more effective leadership in their churches.

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, the ministry of the fellowship of ailbe reached into more than 180 countries, through daily and weekly web columns, free downloadable resources, opportunities for online training, and a bookstore. We continue mentoring and training pastors and other church leaders through reading groups, written materials of various kinds, and mentoring. Our membership continues to grow, and we are developing a variety of projects with our members to continue serving the people who visit our website. We also sponsor regular prayer groups for men from around the country. In 2025 we published four new books. Our four podcasts became more intermittent, and we are reviewing their value. Our board meets twice a year to review our work, and they are very much an active part of the minisry of the fellowship of the ailbe. We have also begun taking steps and making preparations to help ensure that the ministry of the fellowship of ailbe will continue beyond the present generation of board and brothers.

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

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: 2
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 2.4%; rating input score 2
  • Program expense ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 2

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 2.4% of revenue deployed · 2.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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 2/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.