Lake Support and Emergency Recovery Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061807554
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Montverde, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3522670457
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $914,923
- Expenses
- $828,313
- Assets
- $101,106
- Liabilities
- $1,184
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BRANDI MARTIN (EXECUTIVE DI): $80,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of this organization is to strengthen lake county's recovery from any disaster through a coordinated community-wide approach which provides for the immediate and long-term unmet needs of their citizens. With the assistance of local, state, federal and other funding through grants and donations, the organization and volunteers respond to the needs of those directly affected by tornadoes, hurricanes and other disasters, and to assist in repair and recovery. This also includes partnering with the Florida division of emergency management and volunteer Florida in promoting and provision of its hurricane loss mitigation program (hlmp), sheltering in home for recovery (shrc) and other programs. The organization is also available when needed for partnering with other organizations to meet the needs of those in the local and neighboring communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Since 2016 the organization has received grants and assisted with local administration of the Florida division of emergency management's (fdem) residential construction mitigation program (rcmp)and its hurricane loss mitigation program (hlmp). These programs make funding available for retrofitting of residential, commercial and mobile home properties to make them more hurricane resistant, and allows property owners to possibly receive assistance with wind mitigation, a new roof, gable end bracing, shutters, hurricane resistant windows and doors and more. (note: the rcmp is no longer in effect and currently falls under the hlmp.) in more recent years other programs have been made available by the fdem in partnership with volunteer Florida and laser has received additional grants and assisted with local administration of these programs as well, including sheltering in home for recovery (shrc) and others. The organization also seeks and obtains assistance and grants from other governmental and nongovermental agencies, organizations and/or individuals and provides assistance to homeowners and residents when help is needed after hurricanes and other disasters. A significant amount of activity in 2025 was related to hurricane milton.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 83% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $45.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.9% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $639K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.