Life Lane
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263394418
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mount Prospect, IL, USA
- Rating
- 42
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,273
- Expenses
- $90,082
- Assets
- $1,273
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Kreamer (President)
- Karl Clauson (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- John Kreamer (President)
- Karl Clauson (Executive Director)
- Phil Fogle (Director)
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
To awaken a spiritual culture within the church that reaches the world. Speaking in churches and weekend experiences to ignite the church. Preaching Counseling Encouraging churches and pastors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Speaking in churches
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.2%; rating input score 3
- Program expense ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 2
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: -33.9%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th 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: -75.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -30.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.2% of revenue deployed · 2.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 3/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.