Lift One Up Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
815100412
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Phone
7024917100
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Christianity
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$163,967
Expenses
$145,407
Assets
$324,526
Liabilities
$1,509

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • EQUILLA HICKS (Exec Dir./Pres.)
  • STAN HICKS (Treasurer)
  • SHEREE CAIN-JONES (Secretary)

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

Lift One Up is a non-profit organization that inspires, encourages, and empowers women to reach their full potential. We lift up the spiritual, emotional, and psychological well-being of individuals one step at a time. The original mission of Life One Up (LOU) was to help those defined by their current or past challenges as they attempted to navigate through the complex issues of their present. Today, LOU has become so much more. One's issues or challenges are not a prerequisite or a determining factor in our willingness to invest in the lives of others, women of all demographics, and today's youth. Providing a clear-cut pathway filled with hope and a defined purpose for all of our participants is our goal. LOU believes it is not how you start in life; it is how you finish it that matters most!

What it reported doing in 2025

Annual Vision Board Party 32 Women participated in creating a vision board to cast vision for 2025. 10 of those women were from one of our local partnerships and were sponsored by Lift One Up. The participants were able to focus on their goals and dreams for the coming year and create a focal point and reminder that they have hope for their future. Mentoring Program We impacted twenty women through more than one hundred hours of individual and small-group mentoring. These sessions have provided a safe space for personal growth and spiritual development, where women were taught, encouraged, and challenged to step into new levels of confidence and purpose. We also held a Mentoring Ceremony with dinner and a celebration of seven of our Mentees who participated in the one-on-one program for six months.Womens Retreat 28 Women gathered for a powerful time of worship and Spirit-filled teaching where they encountered God personally and with others. The retreat provided opportunity to connect with other women, create space to refresh, restore, and renew spirit, soul, and body! Local Partnerships Program We have been able to serve over six hundred women and young adults. By collaborating with community partners, we have expanded our reach! Partnering with organizations that serve those who have been rescued from human trafficking, women in the healing process of addiction and youth who desire to have careers that make a difference in our world. We offered life building skills and inspired them in their faith to live meaningful and purpose-driven lives.Youth Leadership Authority Provided a Spiritual Development session with 25 students teaching them the power of having the proper perspective when lifes challenges happen. They also had the opportunity to create vision boards and share them.Refuge for Women Two women participated in our mentoring program (one-on-one) experiencing personal growth and personal development.Hoving Home Eight to ten women participated in our bi-weekly small group mentoring session experiencing personal growth and personal development, as well as learning the power of being transparent amongst their peers.Ignite Life Participated in bi-monthly speaking engagements sharing topics that brought healing and hope to women in various churches in the Las Vegas Valley.ChurchLV School of Ministry Five second year young ladies participated in the mentoring program. Because the value is seen in our programming all second-year (female) students are required to participate. Many share how important the experience was to their overall spiritual and personal growth.Global Missions We continue to expand our reach beyond the Las Vegas Valley. Costa Rica - In April 2025, 18 participants traveled from Las Vegas, NV to Liberia, Costa for one week to serve more than five hundred women, children, youth, and families. The team led childrens ministry with skits, games, music, and prayer; conducted outreach by delivering food and essentials house to house; honored senior women with a cultural celebration; and hosted a family fun day that brought joy and connection to the community.Cambodia In August 2025, our team partnered with an international organization (Esthers Voice) for the ninth year to host three-day retreats for over 120 women across a two- and half-week period. These retreats provided teaching, worship, and personal encouragement, reminding women of their value and dignity in Gods eyes. Many shared that this experience gave them renewed strength and confidence to face lifes challenges with hope.Each of these initiatives reflects our mission to invest in women, youth, and families by nurturing their personal and spiritual growth. We celebrate the countless moments of transformation we witnessedwhether in one-on-one mentoring conversations, community gatherings, or cross-cultural ministry.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 30
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 28.6%; rating input score 29
  • Program expense ratio: 32.2%; rating input score 32

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: 11.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 28.6% of revenue deployed · 32.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.