Life Choices Presents
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311688602
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Rochester, IN, USA
- Phone
- 6155308824
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,818
- Expenses
- $90,762
- Assets
- $15,050
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bring hope, healing and change to high school students and faculty by sharing personal experiences and teaching right life choices.
What it reported doing in 2012
Life choices presented programs in South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee, Minnesota, California, Indiana and Iowa. Every community we had the privilege of sharing the message had a wonderful response. Thousands of students were touched by the message of life choices. The story of rachel joy scott continues to inspire teens and adults alike.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 43% for direct work, and 57% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.8%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -17% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.8% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $15K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2011 to 2012
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.