LGBT+ Housing Initiative
Legal name: Lgbt Housing Initiatve
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842525726
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Westlake, OH, USA
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- LGBT Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,890
- Expenses
- $75,713
- Assets
- $90,019
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- Michael Zinicola (Head of the Board)
- Dave Gervase (Board member)
- Kimberly Davis (Board Member)
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
The LGBT+ Housing Initiative, through the KW Rainbow Network, is committed to encouraging home ownership in the LGBTQ+ community.
What it reported doing in 2025
DonaTED TO 4 ORGANIZATIONS TO HELP HOMELESS LGBTQ+ YOUTH Helped elevate homeless youth. Provided monies for Mental Heath Services for troubled homeless youth
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -26.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $588K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.