Big Lake Lions Club Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521164053
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Big Lake, AK, USA
Phone
9078926502
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,330
Expenses
$1,932,407
Assets
$164,775
Liabilities
$12,741

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KIM SINNETT (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • WILLIAM HALLER (OUTGOING GM/): $15,550 total reported compensation
  • KIM SINNETT (PRESIDENT): $2,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide community support for medical, charitable, educational, handicap and civic assistance for the less fortunate.

What it reported doing in 2025

Assistance to the less fortunate through food, heating, medical, youth programs, educational, sight and civic programs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 63% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 92
  • Transparency & Controls: 76
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2,571.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 43.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.