Eatingyoualiveorg

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
823671434
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Collegedale, TN, USA
Phone
7062644572
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nutrition

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$225,760
Expenses
$225,699
Assets
$74
Liabilities
$27,716

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RON GREEN (DIRECTOR)
  • MERRILEE JACOBS (DIRECTOR)
  • PAUL DAVID KENNAMER (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

To globally promote healthy lifestyles through diet and other lifestyle factors that have been scientifically proven to arrest the progression of chronic disease and often even reverse them. To raise the general awareness and inform of the benefits of healthy lifestyle through various means including documentary films, videos media, free educational classes media and publicity and other.

What it reported doing in 2025

To globally promote healthy lifestyles through a plant-based, whole foods diet and other lifestyle factors that has been scientifically proven to arrest the progression of chronic diseases and often even reverse them - diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. To raise the general awareness of the benefits of such a healthy lifestyle through various means including documentary films and other videos, media and publicity and other means of public dissemination. To fund medical studies, including controlled clinical trials and observational trials, assessing the benefits of a plant-based, whole foods lifestyle as compared to other diets. To produce, develop and distribute documentary films dealing with the dietary concerns and the impact that the diet has on the general health and welfare of the public at large. These films will expose and document the impact of diet on the prevention and reversal of certain chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, crohn's, parkinson's, asthma, arthritis, gout, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, nephritis, sjogren's and many other chronic diseases. To support other organizations with a mission consistent with the above stated mission and raise the awareness level of the general public, government and the medical community, to the benefits of a plant-based whole foods diet in addition to other lifestyle pillars, in arresting the progression of chronic diseases and even reversing them.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.4%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 374.54; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -38.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.4% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $224K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $171K reported
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.