Lang Cares Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871263112
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Newark, DE, USA
Phone
3027311340
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Revenue
$56,283
Expenses
$72,285
Assets
$295,712
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEFFREY LANG (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
  • KARYN LANG (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • JEFFREY LANG (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
  • KARYN LANG (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
  • MADELINE MARIE REDMAN (SECRETARY & 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

Lang cares aims to help organizations, individuals and families in the local community through scholarship programs, community drives, charity events, among other activities. The main goal of lang cares is to provide assistance to local organizations in an effort to positively contribute to the community where our company conducts most of its business.

What it reported doing in 2025

Lang cares scholarship for future community leaderslang cares expanded on our lang cares foundation scholarship for future community leaders program by awarding the scholarship to two seniors at newark charter high school, two seniors at newark high school and one senior at the charter school of wilmington in may 2025. The five students received a one-time scholarship in the total amount of $17,500 for future college expenses. Lang cares was honored to present this scholarship to these four highly qualified students who have shown extreme success both in and out of the classroom. All students were also heavily involved in their local community through volunteering their time and efforts at numerous organizations. We were so happy to expand the scholarship to include three high schools in the newark area in 2025, newark charter high school, newark high school and the charter school of wilmington.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 78
  • Accountability: 18
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 60.3%; rating input score 60; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -28.4%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.09; rating input score 49; 49th 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -27.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $69K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.