Lilys Pad
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842851755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Tempe, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4802903517
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $370,344
- Expenses
- $372,350
- Assets
- $1,099,657
- Liabilities
- $600,078
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brad Taylor (President)
- Alan Taylor (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Dawn Garza (Executive Dir.): $77,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Lily's Pad is to provide immunocompromised children with a clean environment where they can enjoy typical childhood activities, while offering their caregivers and parents a place to rest and connect. Lily's Pad is home to children battling cancer, living with heart condidtions or kidney disease, recovering from organ transplants, and suffering from rare genetic disorders that impact their immune system. We partner with nursing colleges to offer students clinical hours within our facility and Lily's Pad is used by therapists and social workers to provide care typically unavailable to these children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Lily's Pad is a hyperclean indoor playground providing play and social opportunities for children who are immunocompromised. Our main program consists of offering group play sessions including special events and enriching activites for the whole family. We also offer specialized programming of individual play sessions to allow even the most immunocompromised children and their families an opportunity to utilize our facility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.95; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 50.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $286K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.