Legwork for Lungs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843275697
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Moorestown, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8565777242
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,292
- Expenses
- $6,491
- Assets
- $734
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nina Johnson (President)
- Ellie Yu (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Nina Johnson (President)
- Ellie Yu (Vice President)
- Adrian Perono (Event 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
Legwork for Lungs hosts annual 5k races and mile walk events in the month of November to raise money for lung cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Members of the organization, college students, adults, and other volunteers, conduct the activity that is annually hosted in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and potentially in other locations in New Jersey as well. The percentage of my time allocated to the activity is 40 percent for gathering sponsors, 30 percent for conducting the 5k event itself (including prepping before the event), 20 percent for working on graphics for social media and websites, and 10 percent for discussing plans and feedback with our team. The activity is funded by donations from local businesses that sponsor us and the general public. Our activity is solely for charitable purposes as we are an organization that supports another public charity (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
What it reported doing in 2025
Rented a public park for the day to host a 5k race and mile walk event to support lung cancer research efforts by MSKCC and donated proceeds to MSKCC. Purchased necessary materials for the event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.6%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th 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 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 61.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.6% of revenue deployed · 22.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 24/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.