Choose Life Idaho Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832379250
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Meridian, ID, USA
Phone
2089171875
Rating
51
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$62,893
Expenses
$72,050
Assets
$34,893
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cynthia M Lange (President)

People named in this filing

  • Cynthia M Lange (President)
  • David Lange (Secretary)
  • Carlos E Vidales (Treasurer)

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

Engage in fundraising through various means to assist other 501(c)(3) agencies that provide counseling, care, and assistance for women to encourage alternatives to abortion. Engage in education of the public for support of adoption as a positive choice for women who are at risk of choosing abortion. The organization receives most of its funds as residuals from the sale of Choose Life Idaho specialty license plates; the remainder of the funds proceed from individual donors.

What it reported doing in 2025

During the calendar year 2025 the organization received $62,286.43 from private donations, interest income, and from the sale and registration renewals (by the Idaho Transportation Department) of Choose Life specialty license plates. During the same period, the organization granted $65,000.00 to a dozen crisis pregnancy resource centers in the State of Idaho.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 11
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 11.2%; rating input score 11
  • Program expense ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 10

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -14.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 11.2% of revenue deployed · 9.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 11/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.