Life Roads Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852348798
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Mableton, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4049317265
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,339
- Expenses
- $2,866
- Assets
- $138,418
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Veronica Landers (President)
- Ashley Linton (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Douglas Lowe (Secretary/ Treasurer)
- Veronica Landers (President)
- Ashley Linton (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
Life Roads is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting children and families facing clothing, food & financial insecurity. Our goal is to ensure that every child and family, regardless of their financial situation, has access to the basic resources needed for a successful and fulfilling life. Through partnerships, donations, and community engagement, Life Roads provides essential services that help bridge the gap for those in need.
What it reported doing in 2025
E Roads Bicycle & Active Wellness Initiative: Promoting Health, Confidence, and Achievement Life Roads is committed to supporting the physical, emotional, and academic well-being of children in the communities it serves. Through its Bicycle & Active Wellness Initiative, Life Roads provides new bicycles, scooters, safety equipment, and bike locks each year to students in Cobb County, reinforcing the importance of healthy activity while building confidence, independence, and pride. This initiative reflects Life Roads belief that access to safe recreation and positive incentives plays a critical role in a childs overall development. Cobb County School Bike Rodeo Partnership Each year, Life Roads proudly supports the Cobb County School Bike Rodeo, held annually at Argyle Elementary School. This community event focuses on teaching children bicycle safety, promoting physical fitness, and encouraging healthy outdoor activity. Life Roads provides: Brand-new bicycles and scooters Knee pads and safety gear to promote safe riding Bike locks to ensure security and responsibility These items are given to students during the Bike Rodeo, creating a positive and memorable experience that emphasizes both safety and fun. More Than a Giveaway: Building Confidence and Healthy Habits The impact of this program extends far beyond receiving a bike. For many children, this is their first new bicycle, and the experience can be transformative. The program helps: Encourage healthy exercise and outdoor play Build self-confidence and independence Teach responsibility through bike ownership and safety practices Create positive associations with physical activity Children leave the event not only equipped with bikes and safety gear, but also with a renewed sense of confidence and joy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 49
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.9%; rating input score 19
- 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: 97.6%; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 48.3; rating input score 99; 99th 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: 52.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 19/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.