Liberty in Myanmar
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882160162
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lowell, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6169512030
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Human Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $101,614
- Expenses
- $100,930
- Assets
- $1,621
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tim Schierbeek (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Tim Schierbeek (Executive Director)
- Todd Burns (Secretary)
- Bawi Lian (Chairman)
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
Providing humanitarian aid, education support, and orphan care to communities in Myanmar.
What it reported doing in 2025
Grants and direct support to orphanages and schools in Myanmar, India and Thailand, including funding for food, shelter, education, and child welfare. Approximately 600+ children and students benefited during the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 94.1%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -21.1% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -78.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $95K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.