Live Love
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 260880504
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Chandler, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4807584242
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community, Neighborhood Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $585,917
- Expenses
- $640,611
- Assets
- $3,438,377
- Liabilities
- $685,824
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MELINDA GUNTHER (EXEC DIRECTOR AS OF APRIL, 2025): $65,697 total reported compensation
- CARRIE KEARNEY (CHAIRPERSON AS OF APRIL, 2025): $13,938 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Live love is a community development non-profit partnering with neighborhood leaders for the purpose of building strong community, connecting people, and caring for our neighbors. Live love is dedicated to doing our part in bringing people (see schedule o) together in safe and supportive environments, where we can listen, learn and grow with each other.
What it reported doing in 2025
Live love chandler provides community development services in downtown chandler for the purpose of building trusted relationships and connecting people to needed resources and expanded opportunities. In 2025, live love chandler consistently served and supported 82 kids and teens and 41 senior adults with weekly and biweekly program opportunities. In addition over 231 hot meals were served to our senior adults alone, and 719 food boxes were delivered to neighborhood families. Together with over 150 volunteers, 1683 volunteer service hours were provided to our target community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 66% for direct work, and 34% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.3%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 71.4%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.37; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.3% of revenue deployed · 71.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $458K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.