Word of Life Chapel International
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010814106
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Baltimore, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4438667344
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,347
- Expenses
- $121,730
- Assets
- $235,744
- Liabilities
- $27,500
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- EDWARD O POKU (PASTOR)
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
Church: guide members and to help them follow the word of god.
What it reported doing in 2025
To preach the word of god to all that come.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.