Lao Community of Michigan
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 990925186
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Ypsilanti, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7349853087
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $133,890
- Expenses
- $105,032
- Assets
- $28,858
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Lao Community of Michigans primary exempt purpose is to preserve, promote, and advance Lao culture, heritage, and community well-being through educational, cultural, and charitable programs. The organization serves Lao Americans and the broader public by offering cultural education, language and history learning, arts and traditional practices, youth leadership development, intergenerational activities, and community events. LCM also provides community outreach, civic engagement, and support services that strengthen social connections, promote cultural understanding, and enhance the quality of life for underserved and immigrant communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Stylz-LunMai Youth Fashion & Cultural Arts Project: The Stylz-LunMai Project is a youth-led fashion and cultural arts program that empowers teens and young adults by blending traditional Lao and Southeast Asian designs with modern American fashion. The program provided hands-on workshops, mentoring, and creative development opportunities, culminating in a public fashion showcase. Participants gained cultural knowledge, artistic skills, confidence, and exposure to creative career pathways while promoting cultural pride and cross-cultural understanding. Approximately 4060 youth and young adults benefited from this program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.3%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 87.1%; rating input score 87
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: 21.6%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 57.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.3% of revenue deployed · 87.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $91K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.