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WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 45-2899583 SCHROON LAKE, NY

Revenue 2023
$24,510,604
Expenses 2023
$17,291,989

Program services were 98.9% 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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 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
    $185,826
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $161,847
    Other
    $23,979
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $161,847 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $23,979 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $185,826 related

  • Nelson Benjamin J

    Director

    Total calculated
    $125,963
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $109,887
    Other
    $16,076
    Hours/week
    10 + 30 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $109,887 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $16,076 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $125,963 related

  • Nightingale Deb

    Director Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $69,299
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $61,689
    Other
    $7,610
    Hours/week
    2

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $61,689 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $7,610 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $69,299 related

  • Nightengale Charles D

    Director

    Total calculated
    $55,631
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $34,464
    Other
    $21,167
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

  • Brown Bob G

    Director-Secretary

    Total calculated
    $24,630
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $24,500
    Other
    $130
    Hours/week
    20 + 20 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $24,500 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $130 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $24,630 related

  • Wyrtzen Ronald D

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • Brown Andrew

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • Swanson Dane

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • Walter R Price

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 4 related

  • Chad J Lubke

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 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 — 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

  • 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.

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 2023 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 10 September 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.