Love 4 Life Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821906316
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Perris, CA, USA
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Small Business Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,751
- Expenses
- $184,199
- Assets
- $13,139
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wendy Romero (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Wendy Romero (CEO)
- Brenda Romero (COO)
- Brenda Romero (Family Engagement 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
Love 4 Life Association is dedicated to empowering youth strengthening families and promoting emotional well-being through educational programs leadership development and community support services that foster kindness resilience and positive relationships.
What it reported doing in 2025
Love 4 Life Association provides educational programs for students and families focused on social emotional learning leadership development mental health kindness and bullying prevention. Workshops presentations and leadership activities are delivered in partnership with local schools and school districts to support students emotional development while also providing parents with tools and resources to strengthen family communication resilience and confidence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 3.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 84.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $184K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.