Lifebridge Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874157404
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kirkwood, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3149668167
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Financial Counseling
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,333
- Expenses
- $90,275
- Assets
- $199,811
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tom Sanders (President)
- Mike Reid (Executive Director)
- Wallace Ward (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Tom Sanders (President)
- James Brown (Secretary)
- Mike Reid (Executive Director)
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
LifeBridge Ministries seeks to transform lives through resources and relationships to break generational cycles of poverty. We offer a low-cost market, financial education and coaching, classes, workshops, and assistance programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
The LifeBridge Market offers fresh food, produce, and personal care items at an affordable price. The Market improves food security of our participants, provides access to healthier food options and creates savings to help participants meet financial goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 36
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 31.4%; rating input score 31
- Program expense ratio: 44.2%; rating input score 44
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: 29.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.21; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -31.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 31.4% of revenue deployed · 44.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.