Azalias Heart the Azalia Walker Edwards Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
854040181
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Mandeville, LA, USA
Phone
5043355452
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dionne Lewis (President)
  • Daven Lewis (Executive Director)
  • Michael Desjardins (Vice-President)

People named in this filing

  • Dionne Lewis (President)
  • Daven Lewis (Executive Director)
  • Michael Desjardins (Vice-President)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Azalia's Heart Foundation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Foundation's purpose is to improve the quality of life for underserved individuals and families by providing emergency shelter assistance, food security programs, educational resources, support for mothers and children in shelter housing, disaster relief, and community outreach programs that promote stability, self-sufficiency, and hope throughout Southeast Louisiana.

What it reported doing in 2024

Azalia's Heart Foundation provides charitable programs that support underserved individuals and families throughout Southeast Louisiana. During the reporting period, the Foundation engaged in community outreach, recruited volunteers, developed partnerships with local organizations, and organized initiatives focused on addressing shelter insecurity, food insecurity, educational needs, and disaster relief. The Foundation also planned and promoted programs to provide school supplies and uniforms, assist mothers and children in shelter housing, distribute essential resources to underserved families, and respond to community needs during emergencies. Through these efforts, Azalia's Heart continued building its capacity to expand services and strengthen its impact within the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 200% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.