Lazera Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364944318
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$88,403
Expenses
$99,021
Assets
$17,842
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Yolonda Earl-Thompson (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Yolonda Earl-Thompson (Executive Director)
  • Zandra M Earl (Co-Founder)
  • Jeanette Philips (Chairperson)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

LAZERA provides human-centered outreach advocacy support services and programs for marginalized communities in Northern Virginia with their primary focus on the Mt. Vernon Franconia Districts along Richmond Highway in Fairfax County VA. The LAZERA Ministries Community Health Collective is comprised of three 3 programs that are culturally relevant and incorporate traditional healing practices such as yoga meditation sound therapy and group social enrichment activities to help facilitate a reduction in the number of individuals who experience anxiety depression isolation or suicidal thoughts influenced by their environment socioeconomic status or lived experience as members of marginalized communities. Our four programs are Healing Circles UBUNTU ASA Youth Leadership Program Keeping It Real womens support group and Community Engagement & Survivor Support.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community Engagement and Survivor Support - Creating the change we want to see is how we engage and provide support to those impacted by violence or seeking safe-spaces to enrich and protect the lives of their children. We provide victims of domestic violence with court-accompaniment and victim stabilization resources and engage youth thorough our summer enrichment and mentoring programs

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 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 42.9%; rating input score 43

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -108.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -75.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -45.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 42.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.