Loving Our Communitys Children Inc Ascension Affiliate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852439925
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Gonzales, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2252700524
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,157
- Expenses
- $26,541
- Assets
- $72,682
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeffrey Soper (President)
People named in this filing
- Candace Melancon (Secretary)
- Darce Richmond (Treasurer)
- Scott Stafford (Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Create a bridge between the community and children in need, who have been affected by a traumatic experience, while laying a foundation for their journey to healing by providing support and essential materials.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Loving Our Community's Children, Ascension Affiliate provided clothing, toys, and other essential items (hygiene items, beds, cribs, strollers, etc.) to over 223 families representing over 577 children. These children were from low income homes in Ascension Parish and surrounding parishes with many referred by mandatory reporters. All items provided to these families were received as donations and provided at no cost to the child's family. Although most work for the organization is accomplished by a team of volunteers, one part-time employee performed administrative tasks and assisted with facility operations for a majority of 2025. The organization operates from a portion of a building hosted by Fellowship Church in Ascension Parish and a second location hosted by The Tinker FOundation also in Ascension Parish at no cost to the organization.
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 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 35
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 8.3%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -414.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.74; rating input score 42; 42nd 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -146.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -19.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 8.3% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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 8/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.