Legacy Family Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300759390
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Gunnison, CO, USA
Phone
9705961706
Rating
54
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Pregnancy Centers
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$172,242
Expenses
$271,103
Assets
$44,499
Liabilities
$3,885

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WENDY C SOLHEIM (CEO)
  • MOLLY GIBB (Executive Director)
  • VANISSA NIENHUESER (Executive Director)
  • LINDA CORY (Board President)
  • JONATHAN JONES (Board Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • WENDY C SOLHEIM (CEO)
  • MOLLY GIBB (Executive Director)
  • VANISSA NIENHUESER (Executive 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To heal, educate, restore & strengthen families

What it reported doing in 2025

The LEAD Homeschool Enrichment Programs Payroll for Educators was Legacy Family Ministries largest program service in 2025. Educators provide a 2 day per week drop off program for homeschooling families in the Gunnison Valley and provide academic instruction, PE, arts, crafts, science, and history along with some basic language arts. Children benefit from the social interactions with other homeschooled families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% 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 and revenue has grown recently. 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: 26
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 9
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 29.6%; rating input score 30
  • Program expense ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 19

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -57.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 29.6% of revenue deployed · 18.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.