Lionhearts Fitness
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833124253
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2019, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Chattanooga, TN, USA
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,283
- Expenses
- $30,872
- Assets
- $9,946
- Liabilities
- $2,747
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michele Luccketta (President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Michele Luccketta (President and Director)
- Tracy Luccketta (Treasurer and Officer)
- Tommy Davidson (Officer)
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 provide free and accessible fitness character development and community service programs for youth and families promoting physical health resilience leadership and positive life skills in a safe and supportive environment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth Fitness & Character Development Training - Lionhearts Fitness provided free weekly fitness strength training and characterbuilding programs for youth and families. Activities included structured workouts mentorship leadership development and positive community engagement. The program served approximately 150 youth throughout the year helping participants improve physical health confidence discipline and resilience. Many youth demonstrated measurable gains in strength endurance and school engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.6%; rating input score 55
- Program expense ratio: 60.7%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.6% of revenue deployed · 60.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.