Lumalali Limu International Org
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833287401
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3462640679
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Rural Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,973
- Expenses
- $110,830
- Assets
- $2,143
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ricardo Bermudez (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Ricardo Bermudez (Executive Director)
- Terry Velasquez (Assistant Director)
- Olga Fernandez (Executive Secretary)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Said corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501 (c) (3) of the internal Revenue Code or the correspondence section of any future tax code. The specific purpose of the corporation is to help and improve the lives of the Garifuna population. To support the health, education, and development of Garifuna's. To increase cultural and economic awareness in Garifuna communities and to improve the lives of current and future generations. This organization is composed of various Garifuna individuals' descendants of Limon who reside in New York, New Orleans, Houston, and Honduras. Each coalition will share the name of Lumalali Limu and the name of the city it represents. We help without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, or national origin.
What it reported doing in 2024
The purpose of the back-to-school activity is to foster community engagement by supporting students, parents, and educators as they prepare for the upcoming school year. It aims to provide essential resources, information, and motivation, ensuring a positive and energized start to the academic journey.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.5%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 54.5%; rating input score 55
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: 1.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -46.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -43.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 104.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.5% of revenue deployed · 54.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.