Let Our Voices Empower
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872137765
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Hampton, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7572070411
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $332,985
- Expenses
- $406,930
- Assets
- $33,826
- Liabilities
- $91,185
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ADRIAN COOK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- LANCE JONES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ADRIAN COOK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $90,734 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dedicated to supporting and sustaining healthy, thriving communities by empowering adults and children to build their capacity to grow to their highest personal development and acquire specialized knowledge to break down barriers limiting their abilities to achieve success.
What it reported doing in 2024
Let our voices empower (love) has served the community since 2020 with a mission to strengthen families, empower youth and young adults, reduce violence, and promote emotional and economic stability across neighborhoods most affected by trauma and systemic disadvantage. Founded on the belief that community transformation requires credible leadership, culturally grounded intervention, and holistic support, love has developed into a trusted anchor organization delivering integrated services that address the interconnected challenges of violence, mental health, family instability, and workforce barriers. Loves work began with the implementation of a community-based violence interrupter model designed to prevent retaliatory incidents, mediate conflicts, and build trust within high-risk neighborhoods. Over time, the organization expanded its service model to include mentoring, workforce readiness training, parenting support, and mental health counseling in response to the growing needs of the youth and families it served. The expansion of services reflects loves commitment to addressing not only the symptoms but also the root causes of violence and instability. This integrated approach has positioned love as one of the only organizations in the region offering a comprehensive continuum of care that simultaneously addresses behavioral, emotional, social, and economic contributors to community well-being.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -22.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.7; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 92.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $378K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.