Friends of Lesotho Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 521544063
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location: Oakwood, OH, USA
Phone: 9372594119
Rating: 95
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue: $53,763
Expenses: $80,829
Assets: $116,081
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Meghan White (President)
Kenneth Tucceri (Vice-President)
Scott Rosenberg (Former President)

People named in this filing

Meghan White (President)
Kenneth Tucceri (Vice-President)
Kevin Caughlin (Secretary)

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

The purpose of FOL is to serve as a point of contact and funding source for scholarships and grants to small development projects in Lesotho.

What it reported doing in 2025

Qacha's Nek Snake Park & Tourist Information Centre - $13,800 to renovate an outdoor dining space and kitchen for their visitor center

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 96
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 37
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 88.7%; rating input score 89

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: -50.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 57; 57th 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: 43% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.7% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 10 filed program accomplishments · $72K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.