Life to Life Ministries Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
593508679
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Orlando, FL, USA
Phone
4076578129
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$447,129
Expenses
$454,971
Assets
$130,647
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • James Cunneen Pres Emeritus (9249 Toby Lane, Orlando, FL 32817-1398): $81,979 total reported compensation
  • Thomas Gilbert President (3841 Stonefield Drive, Orlando, FL 32826): $59,735 total reported compensation
  • Michael Sulc Vice Pres (1319 16TH ST.,AMES, IA 50010): $55,710 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

In USA, collegiate christian study and service organization at univ. Of central Florida. Purpose: to help christian students grow in faith and serve in their communities. In africa, christian ministry and humanitarian aid organizationin zimbabwe.

What it reported doing in 2025

African humanitarian aid and christian ministry to needy families and individuals (no government grants) in Zimbabwe, Africa. This aid consists of urgent life needs of food, medicines, and orphan care for many families. There is an orphan care facility with two supported workers. Recent projects include helping families grow corn on small plots of land, and helping qualified elementary and high school students with school fees. A multi-purpose community center (with adjoining land for growing crops) was completed in 2018. This building was partially funded by Hopevale Church of Sanginaw, MI. Volunteers from this church also traveled to Zimbabwe to help with its construction. A christian College ministry is also conducted in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe at CUT (Chinhoyi Univ. of Technology) For Further informatioin on this ministry/ humanitartian aid effort in Africa, please see www.life2lifeafrica.blogspot.com

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 48% for direct work, and 52% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has grown recently. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 53
  • Accountability: 38
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 45.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $455K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.