Life Impact International Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
262944042
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
Location
Broken Arrow, OK, USA
Phone
9189575682
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
International Relief

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,935,178
Expenses
$2,536,789
Assets
$2,773,807
Liabilities
$46,070

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LANA M VASQUEZ (BOARD PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • LANA M VASQUEZ (BOARD PRESIDENT & CEO): $144,982 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Life impact works relentlessly to make a difference in the lives of trafficked, exploited, and at-risk children in thailand, burma, and brazil. Through local prevention projects and outreaches, we work to prevent child exploitation, reaching nearly 1,000 children in brazil alone. We offer tutoring, counseling, vocational training, food, and so much more. We partner with local governments, including police, social welfare workers, hospitals, and community leaders, to rescue children from horrific situations, operating some 20 family-style safe homes in the three nations. We don't just rescue children. We take every step possible to bring restoration, healing, and wholeness to each child entrusted to our care. We help them heal through counseling and education, giving them the love and childhood they deserve, and pointing them to the greatest rescuer of all, jesus.

What it reported doing in 2024

Our programs in brazil are accomplished through grants to life impact brazil, based in campina grande, brazil. We have six prevention projects in five brazilian communities in three regions: rio de janeiro, ceara (northeast), and the amazon (north). These projects provide a safe place for the children to receive help, tutoring, food, supplies, play games or sports, and learn about jesus. In 2024, over a 1,000 children were enrolled in our prevention projects. In 2024, we distributed more than 137,000 meals and nearly 38,000 pounds of food. Our mission is to prevent abuse and exploitation since many of the children live in some of the darkest and most dangerous regions of the world for children.some will sell their bodies for rice and beans. While for others, their only hope for money or status is to be a drug dealer or the girlfriend of a drug dealer. Our life impact brazil team does everything it can to help families in the community with food, education, vocational training, counseling, and sharing the gospel with them. A professional staff of psychologists and social workers visits families in "favelas" every year. They are trained to recognize any abuse in the home. They also work with public entities to change the community and keep the children safe, holding campaigns to teach the community how to identify child sexual abuse and human trafficking. In 2024, we held 100 outreaches in the communities we serve. We helped 700 families with basic necessities. In the amazon, we received certification in december to open our first safe home. We began the process in july of 2023 and completed it a year and a half later. Grants to life impact help pay for projects and administrative costs.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62.5%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.09; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62.5% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.