Life of Giving Charity
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883204583
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Old Saybrook, CT, USA
- Rating
- 99
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,000
- Expenses
- $45,987
- Assets
- $123,263
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- Ruthedine Destra (treasurer)
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 primary exempt purpose of life of giving charity is to alleviate human suffering and promote the well-being of individuals in need through charitable donations , support and service.The organization is dedicated to providing essential resources such as food , shelter , education and medical assistance to underserved communities , both locally and globally.By focussing on improving the lives of vulnerable populations, Life of giving Charity seeks to create lasting positive change empowering individuals to built better futures while fostering a spirit of compassion generosity and community involvement
What it reported doing in 2025
Clothes and sneakers donation
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.68; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 199% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 56.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $200K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.