Life Untethered

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
993465830
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Tipp City, OH, USA
Phone
9372445262
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$349,263
Expenses
$274,128
Assets
$103,493
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • RYAN RAY (EXECUTIVE DI): $16,200 total reported compensation
  • BRITLEY RAY (CO-EXEC DIRE): $7,500 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

A refreshing approach to living life to its fullest, achieved by helping people sever the ropes tot he things that hold them down, and placing an emphasis on serving humankind.

What it reported doing in 2025

Gifts & presence is the clark county senior citizens task force christmas campaign for local nursing homes. Over 300 nursing home residents recieved an incredible christmas, which involved granting the wishes on each wishlist. We compile each wishlist, and then make then public via our website. The community then adopts each nursing home resident, shops for them, wraps them, and then drops them off to us. Then gifts are then shuttles to their respective home, where we throw a big christmas party with gifts, live music, festive treats, and lots of tears of joy. The chrysanthemum award was created to highlight those who so beautifully elevate the quality of life for those residing in long-term care facilities. This is awarded annually.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 55
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: $47.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 85.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 114% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $259K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $16K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.