Lifeline Wellness Institute Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200967201
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Knoxville, IL, USA
Phone
8456618465
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$426,648
Expenses
$344,186
Assets
$610,284
Liabilities
$88,278

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PETER CARSTENS (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MESKEL ARAGUE (VICE PRESIDE)
  • SERGIO BELLINO (DIRECTOR)
  • PETER CARSTENS (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. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The lifeline wellness institute's mission is to provide educational and instructional services by assisting individuals to live a healther lifestyle while realizing an existence free of chronic diseases and needless pain through counseling, empowering life principles, talks and life-enhanching therapies.

What it reported doing in 2020

Lifeline wellness institute, inc. Can only reach a small number of individuals to enhance the healthy living experiences of people around the us. Lifeline wellness institute, inc. Achieves reaching out to more people by having individuals come for 2-week training sessions where not only their lives are enhanced by the lifestyle changes and counseling they get while participating at our facilities, but by the education they receive that is easily shareable with those around them in need of health. We provide the best possible meals and teaching tools for this purpose. This year we were to directly transform the lives of 500 individuals that visited our facilities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.

The verdict

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

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 57.6%; rating input score 58
  • Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 19.3%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 35.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 57.6% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $246K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2017 to 2020
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.