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WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 45-2899583 SCHROON LAKE, NY

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Revenue 2025
$15,950,144
Expenses 2025
$29,387,710

Program services were 98.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X111
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 600

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE FOUNDATION IS OPERATED FOR THE SUPPORT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE, AND EDUCATIONAL TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSES OF WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC. THE FOUNDATION RECEIVES AND DISTRIBUTES FUNDS TO WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC AND OTHER TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS WHO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Foundation is organized and operated exclusively to support the overall mission and vision of Word of Life Fellowship, Inc (Word of Life) . Word of Life will oversee the affairs of the Foundation and ensure that all actions of the Foundation are consistent with the mission, vision, values and purposes of Word of Life. The Foundation, by receiving and managing charitable contributions, will support Word of Life and other charities whose work furthers Word of Life's purposes.

  • THE FOUNDATION IS OPERATED AS A SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION FOR THE SUPPORT AND FURTHERANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE, AND EDUCATIONAL TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSES OF Word of Life Fellowship Inc . THE FOUNDATION RAISEs AND DISTRIBUTES FUNDS TO WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC AND OTHER TAX EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS WHO FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INC.

    Expenses $29,036,946 · Grants $29,036,946 · Revenue $15,845,918

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lough Don H

    Director

    Total calculated
    $205,531
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $176,863
    Other
    $28,668
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $176,863 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $28,668 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $205,531 related

  • Nightingale Charles D

    Director

    Total calculated
    $89,910
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $89,910
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $89,910 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $89,910 related

  • Nelson Benjamin J

    Director

    Total calculated
    $81,386
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $69,001
    Other
    $12,385
    Hours/week
    10 + 30 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $69,001 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $12,350 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $81,351 related

  • Nightingale Deb

    Director Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $73,824
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $65,026
    Other
    $8,798
    Hours/week
    2 + 30 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $65,026 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $8,798 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $73,824 related

  • Brown Bob G

    Director-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $25,732
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $25,457
    Other
    $275
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $25,457 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $275 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $25,732 related

  • Hoselton Riley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Lubke Chad J

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 4 related

  • Swanson Dane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 4 related

  • Walter R Price

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 4 related

  • Wyrtzen Ronald D

    Director/President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 4 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $15,950,144
    Expenses
    $29,387,710
    Contributions
    $15,078,933
    Grants paid
    $29,036,946
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $24,510,604
    Expenses
    $17,291,989
    Contributions
    $24,063,736
    Grants paid
    $17,098,683
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,873,124
    Expenses
    $20,052,852
    Contributions
    $11,922,438
    Grants paid
    $19,865,130

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,657,621
    Expenses
    $18,766,274
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,167,251

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $24,081,640
    Expenses
    $29,949,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,049,518

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,070,055
    Expenses
    $21,209,090
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,866,251

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,704,228
    Expenses
    $10,462,454
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,929,630

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,866,247
    Expenses
    $8,200,920
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,744,293

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,696,058
    Expenses
    $13,186,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,061,360

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,900,932
    Expenses
    $8,060,241
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,554,915

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,697,595
    Expenses
    $6,889,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,995,323

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,082,092
    Expenses
    $19,275,169
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,880,357

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,042,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,269,739

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.