Daughters of Our Living Lord & Savior

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272158907
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Plano, TX, USA
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development – Religious Leadership
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$111,369
Expenses
$93,466
Assets
$323,536

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gale Carter (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Gale Carter (Executive Director)
  • Heather Garen (Treasurer)
  • Debby Reed (Board Member)

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

Daughters of Our Living Lord & Savior "DOLLS is an inter-denominational Christian ministry for teenage girls available on middle and high school campuses. Our chapters are student-initiated and student-led fellowships whose goal in gathering is to bring those separated from God to a reconciled relationship with Him through the Gospel of Jesus Christ to model lives motivated by the Gospel as they live obediently to Jesus as our Lord and to equip young believers to be leaders for the purpose of the Gospel.

What it reported doing in 2024

Apologetics Conference - In February 2024 DOLLS officers & members attended an Apologetics Conference put on by Stand to Reason called Reality. Biblical worldview training is an important focus of the DOLLS ministry. We were delighted to be able to bring just under 75 of our members and officers to attend this conference with us. The students heard from well-known speakers that helped our girls understand that what they believe about the world determines how they live in the world and that living outside of the Christian worldview puts them at odds with the way the world is reality. At the completion of this event the girls show a demonstrable increase in their confidence and understanding of the Christian faith and worldview. Officers left encouraged to finish their year of ministry strong and several members testified that it was this conference that emboldened them to apply to be officers themselves for the 2024-2025 school year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 31
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 28.7%; rating input score 29
  • Program expense ratio: 34.2%; rating input score 34

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.46; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 28.7% of revenue deployed · 34.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • 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 29/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.