Union Baptist Church
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136220817
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- White Plains, NY, United States
- Phone
- 914-948-6439
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,435,732
- Expenses
- $1,555,260
- Assets
- $6,525,557
- Liabilities
- $2,711,345
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
40 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Pastor Verlin D Williams (Pastor): $135,000 total reported compensation
- Regina Rodriguez (Trustee/Bookkee): $16,905 total reported compensation
- Adlher Rodriguez (Deacon/Bookkeep): $16,905 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Union Baptist Church, we have a simple hope: to see people come to know Jesus Christ and grow in their Christian faith. Your questions are always welcome — Pastor Williams is ready to guide, support, and help deepen your faith. Ask Now. union baptist church **Mission Statement Following the instruction of The Great Commission, we will make disciples for Christ by pursuing lost people to win them for Christ; moving new and older disciples into spiritual maturity. _“19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,__20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”_.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ministry: dedicated to establishing, developing, and promoting all aspects of church ministry within Greenburgh, New York, and its surrounding communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.3%; rating input score 90; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.2; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 92.1% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 31 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 40 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.