Light of Love Ministry
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881062293
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Riverside, IL, United States
- Phone
- 3126261600
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $431,818
- Expenses
- $448,786
- Assets
- $31,525
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susan Zidlicky (President)
- Jessica Buchanan (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Leilani Harbeck (Director)
- Susan Zidlicky (President)
- Jessica Buchanan (Vice 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Light of Love Ministry is a short-term mission sending organization whose passion is to share love, serve those in need, and to be a shining light for God's children. Light of Love wants to help open doors and change people's lives. Serving can be as small and as important as sitting down to talk to someone and hearing their stories. It can be learning to make bricks that will become a new home, going out after dark in a new city to feed the homeless, filling an extra suitcase with children's shoes and school supplies, traveling with a group of orphans on a field trip to the beach, packing and praying over meals to feed a community, playing a game of soccer at a local school, and so much more. These are things Susan has already been part of and would continue to do through Light of Love ministry. Our Story Meet Our Board of Directors.
What it reported doing in 2025
Light of Love Ministry is a short-term mission sending organization whose passion is to share love, serve those in need, and to be a shining light for Gods children.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has grown recently. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 55
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $432K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.