Live Like Cash Gaudio Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333118843
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Lynchburg, VA, USA
- Phone
- 4345342053
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,372
- Expenses
- $27,947
- Assets
- $144,425
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHANNON MEYERS (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DAVID PROVOST (DIRECTOR)
- SHANNON MEYERS (PRESIDENT, DIRECTOR)
- MICAH GAUDIO (VP, DIRECTOR)
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
Need/character based scholarships
What it reported doing in 2025
Live like cash gaudio foundation was organized during 2025 for the charitable purpose of providing scholarships to student-athletes focusing on financial need and character of the recipients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 90
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 9.1%; rating input score 9
- Program expense ratio: 55.9%; rating input score 56
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: 83.8%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.17; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 9.1% of revenue deployed · 55.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.