Live by Living Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263597773
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Lakewood, CO, USA
Phone
3038082339
Rating
95
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Personal Social Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$173,435
Expenses
$195,025
Assets
$258,192
Liabilities
$6,137

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dan Miller (Former Director, former President, and Executive Director)
  • Julie Gelman (Director and President)

People named in this filing

  • Dan Miller (Former Director, former President, and Executive Director)
  • Priscilla Montoya (Director)
  • Jeff Candrian (Director and former 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

Live By Living connects cancer survivors and caregivers with nature and one another through the healing power of walks, hikes and retreats.

What it reported doing in 2025

Education/Outreach: We continued regular communications with cancer treatment centers. LBL staff contacted over 100 nurses, social workers, nurse navigators and managers at dozens of different treatment centers during 2025. We also hosted booths at multiple cancer conferences and events like the Denver Colfax Marathon. We gave a presentation on the emotional and physical benefits of physical activity, social interaction and exposure to nature at the Colorado Cancer Coalition annual symposium.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89

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: -12.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $173K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.