Live Like Laiken Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921556013
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- LeClaire, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5635291376
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,952
- Expenses
- $82,153
- Assets
- $50,590
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kathryn Luett (Director)
- Beth Goldberg (Director)
- Ryan Koenig (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
Making distributions to families of children diagnosed with cancer to assist them with expenses associated with the treatment of the disease and making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c) 3 of the IRC.
What it reported doing in 2025
Making distributions to families of children diagnosed with cancer to assist them with expenses associated with the treatment of the disease and making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c) 3 of the IRC. Was able to raise and gift to St Jude Children's Research Hospital in the amount of $30,000 and provide food and assisance in excess of $ in 2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, and 53% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 68.5%; rating input score 69
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 68.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.