Love A Child

Legal name: Love a Child Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
592672303
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Fort Myers, Florida, United States
Phone
(239) 210-6107
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,501,079
Expenses
$24,704,790
Assets
$47,390,216
Liabilities
$1,227,986

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT BURNETTE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • SHARYN BURNETTE (PRESIDENT)
  • SANDRA HAZELIP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SANDRA HAZELIP (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $229,092 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT BURNETTE (VICE PRESIDENT): $197,464 total reported compensation
  • SHARYN BURNETTE (PRESIDENT): $197,350 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Ministering to the poorest of the poor and working to spread the Word of God in all we do.

What it reported doing in 2025

Love a child (lac) conducted humanitarian outreaches in disaster and hunger relief and health care, including children's development outreach, community medical outreach, food distribution to the hungry, and the development of sustainability programs in haiti and the dominican republic.community medical outreach: the medical programs include our primary regional medical clinic, occasional remote medical clinics, a malnutrition center, and a birthing center. Collectively, these clinics served more than 27,000 patients during 2025. Diagnostic lab services were provided in conjunction with the university of Florida's emerging pathologies institute to detect strains of tuberculosis and other diseases as part of a countrywide detection, prevention, and education effort.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 65% of its reported program spending out as 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: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 57
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $11.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $20.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $229K · 13 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.2M reported
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.