Life-Line Colorado

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364907841
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
7203285650
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Cultural, Ethnic Awareness

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,054,452
Expenses
$2,615,416
Assets
$986,306
Liabilities
$348,016

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Leo Alirez (Executive Dir.): $150,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Life-Line implemented processes beginning with the Department of Corrections in-reach and transitioning to community re-entry Tribe Recovery Homes, Half-Way Houses, etc.. The processes implemented has allowed Life-Line to begin intaking individuals within the Department of Corrections, becoming a part of the parole plan, and seamlessly entering the recovery housing through Tribe Recovery Homes allowing the individual to become a WAGEES Participant through Life-Line. Participants that are not transitioning to recovery housing, offered by Tribe Recovery Homes, intakes can be provided by in the Half-Way house where the Participants reside, or, anywhere the participants are granted to live while on parole. In addition, Life-Line offers the service of intake within the community where the individual identifies as a safe-zone and is comfortable. Life-Line has also been able to create and develop a streamlined process with TNT Construction for a Post-Secondary Certification Forklift Operator.

What it reported doing in 2023

Life-line's successes are based upon each participant and programmatic objectives, program measures and outcomes and funders objectives, program measures and outcomes. Life-Line as an organization aims to address and resolve three basic problems within our community and surrounding systems: 1 Reduce the recidivism rate in regard to community reentry from Department of Corrections DOC and Department of Youth Services DYS. 2 Reduce the violence amongst youth and interrupt the school to prison pipeline and 3 help teach and support individuals through coping and healing regarding mental health and addictions. Over the course of FY 2023 Life-Line of Colorado has established partnerships and collaborations with nearly 26 Denver Area Public Schools and over two dozen community-based agencies and non-profit organizations. In addition to the programs described below Life-Line hosted or supported the following events and/or activities at the Empowerment Center or in the immediate community: 1.Westwood National Night Out: 120 youth 2.Life Line Block Party/Back to School event 100 youth 3.Life Line Back to School Event 400 Students 4.Contemporary Learning Academy Back to School Event 125 Students 5.Bronco Game Youth/Line 15 youth 6.Youth On a Mission 50 youth 7.Overdose Awareness De Los Muertos 24 youth 8.Life Line Coat Drive and Career Expo 125 youth Approximately 8000 people served, 8 community events, 2 boxing events,

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 51
  • Sustainability: 15
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $327.25 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Limited
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -27.3%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 37% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 39.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 25 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2023
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.