True Life Counseling Ministry Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562301638
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Flashing, NY, USA
Phone
6508635744
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Protestant
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$71,422
Expenses
$22,026
Assets
$456,373
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Ke-Gang Shish (Director)
  • Janice Yi Sin (Treasurer)
  • Taiying Lee (Vice 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

Publicly supported Biblical counseling ministry.

What it reported doing in 2025

Teach and train the Chinese churches to help their members to grow into maturity in Christ with their daily lives. Counseling ministry for individuals to biblically and practically solve their life problems. Through translating and publishing books and articles on biblical counseling, as well as through internet, radio program, and multi-media, such as tapes, videotapes, CDs and VCDs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Investment-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 38.1%; rating input score 38
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 69.2%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.72; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -34.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 38.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.