Lukman Awoyode Foundation Lam

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853525197
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5038070350
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,095
Expenses
$9,765
Assets
$330

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Moshood Morakinyo (President)

People named in this filing

  • Oluwakemi Adeyemi (Teacher)
  • Emmanuel Abdul (Treasurer)
  • Risikat Badmus (Teacher)

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

Provide support to poor talented students in the area of scholarships, computer technology, nutrition, etc to ensure a successful future. Provides supports to students who dropped out of school in vocational training and encouragement/mentorship. Provides family empowerment in the area of small scale business and mental health. Preservation of minority culture through teaching children and young adults some African languages.

What it reported doing in 2025

Preservation of African minority language. Teaching children and young adults how to write and speak Yoruba language. 20 students benefited

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 56% for direct work, and 44% for grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 44.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -31% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -20.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.