Lydia Discipleship Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841472779
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2009, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Colorado Springs, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7192661225
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religious Printing, Publishing
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,806
- Expenses
- $105,211
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alaine Pakkala (President)
People named in this filing
- Alaine Pakkala (President)
- Mark Anderson (Director)
- Karen Nottenkamper (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
To equip counselors, lay counselors, and others in leadership to minister to those individuals suffering from traumas, addictions, and abuse recovery.
What it reported doing in 2024
We have been active in teaching and advising those who help thedeeply wounded as well as providing relevant resource materialsto train those who are supporting those who are recovering.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
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: -85.2%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 54%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $97K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.