Life In Balance

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473934476
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Longmont, CO, USA
Phone
3032504594
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$41,104
Expenses
$34,135
Assets
$32,185
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARLA TRUITT (CEO)
  • TODD HESS (PRESIDENT)
  • JILL HESS (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MARLA TRUITT (CEO)
  • TODD HESS (PRESIDENT)
  • JILL HESS (VICE PRESIDENT)

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 mission is to build a supportive community for special adults by sharing their creativity through their unique gifts. And by doing so give them the opportunity to light the world with their elevated confidence, independence and joy!

What it reported doing in 2025

Service program provides a retail outlet for disabled adults to sell the artwork they create with some of the proceeds helping to support Joy House and their lives, expanding creativity and independence.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 83% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 49.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 70.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 28.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.