Living Hope Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473602054
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Jefferson, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5153862735
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,811
- Expenses
- $45,334
- Assets
- $107,847
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD NAZAR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SARAH NAZAR (SECRETARY)
- EDWARD NAZAR (PRESIDENT)
- WILLIAM SUTTON (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
Providing hope through ministry, housing, and community support.
What it reported doing in 2025
Mission team outreaches: living hope ministries and iglesia esperanza viva have been bringing mission teams to honduras since 2016. From 2016 to 2024, just one team came from Iowa every other year. In 2025, the vision for teams was expanded and a second team came from Florida. In 2026, there will be 3 teams including the first medical brigade outreach. Each team is involved with physical projects at hope house, el volcan and the church. Teams also do hospital and school visits, street evangelism, and give out food as needed in each location. Ministry housing project: on may 27, 2025, a new ministry of living hope ministries began with the purchase of a plot of land of an area of 1,009 varas in the community of el sapotal. A vision of providing low-cost housing for certain members of the congregation of iglesia esperanza viva had begun, with the vision to help families that struggle to pay to live in a high rent city environment. There is enough area to develop 4 single family housing units on the purchased land. In november of 2025, a tractor was hired and the land was cleared to make way for the design architect to form a site plan for the units. Even though this is a long-term project that may take several years to complete, it will serve a need within the church community that is pressing and very apparent to those that know the individuals which will be served by this project.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.2%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
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: 43.2%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.38; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.2% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.