Lifeworks Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300448314
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- Granger, IN, USA
- Phone
- 5742383325
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $291,508
- Expenses
- $283,708
- Assets
- $324,375
- Liabilities
- $17,721
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- REDFORD MAUST (CHAIR): $74,956 total reported compensation
- ISAAC NUNEZ (EXECUTIVE DI): $62,299 total reported compensation
- LIZ MAUST (BOARD MEMBER): $14,654 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are on a mission to help young adults put christ at the center of their lives by building a matthew 7:24 community
What it reported doing in 2025
A generation transformed by christs love, living with purpose, and shaping the world for his kingdom.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $42.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- 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: 2.7%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 53.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $236K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.