Love4lucas Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830604592
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Pound Ridge, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9148437264
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,547
- Expenses
- $53,628
- Assets
- $140,836
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Hide Harashima (President)
- Sansan Harashima (Vice President)
- Virginia Wong (Vice President & Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Hide Harashima (President)
- Sansan Harashima (Vice President)
- Virginia Wong (Vice President & 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
To raise awareness of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), contribute to research into a cure for DIPG and support families impacted by DIPG.
What it reported doing in 2025
L4L made a grant in 2025 to the Children's Brain Tumor Project in support of research into the cure of Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 6
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 5.7%; rating input score 6
- Program expense ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 5
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: -6.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.63; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 5.7% of revenue deployed · 5.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 6/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.