L.I.O.N. Outreach International
Legal name: Lion Outreach International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263670049
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7193575466
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Media, Communications
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $167,953
- Expenses
- $207,317
- Assets
- $48,917
- Liabilities
- $102,383
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rev Jerry Vreeman (President/Secretary)
People named in this filing
- Rev Jerry Vreeman (President/Secretary)
- Brenda Miller (Director)
- James Kuipers (Treasurer)
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
To network individuals and organizations on behalf of those we identify as “Leaders In Obscurity” around the world (encouraging, equipping, empowering, and engaging leaders through visits, mentoring, training, seed resources, and networking). Our pioneering work began in India. Since then, the mission has spread to other developing countries in Asia & Africa (see below). L.I.O.N. Outreach provides LIOs with tools such as: Leadership & skills training. EMPOWER** – Through networking we help them become stronger, more confident, effective, & qualified to lead and build teams around them. The network may also empower by providing seed resources for new programs or training. The most effective empowerment is to help liberate them from a sense of obscurity & insignificance. ENGAGE** – Leaders all over the world often try to accomplish their missions or callings by working independently or...
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 we provided "seed investment support' for key network leaders in India (West Bengal, Jharkhand, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu. Before receiving any funds from us, these leaders had to identify their project related to L.I.O.N. purposes, the strategic plan for accomplishing it, and the amount of local support they could raise for their projected budget.This effort also helped these leaders begin to identify teams as well and plan and organize events and projects on behalf of the communities which they are serving. Due to the increased local persecution of those receiving "outside" funds from America, at their request, we greatly reduced again our support to our key leaders in Tamil Nadu. Program expenses went to skills training for youth, and emergency transportation for medical care of elderly slum dwellers. In Jharkand, program expenses went to the continued operation of a village computer training center and student housing at Access academy. In West Bengal, LION leaders provided one medical camp for rural villages near Berhampur and additional support for 20 dairy cows with our "Cows for Leaders" project. In Punjab, L.I.O.N. supported an effort by our key leaders in Chandigarh with 5 additional bicycles for the teams to reach remote villages with teaching and support
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: -23.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.09; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $324K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.