Lydia's Mission
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823587478
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Dublin, OH, US
- Phone
- 9372451512
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,308,599
- Expenses
- $1,067,738
- Assets
- $1,944,669
- Liabilities
- $21,942
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MITCHELL HILDEBRANT (US EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MITCHELL HILDEBRANT (US EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $92,400 total reported compensation
- CLAIRE BROWN KRIEL (FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR): $32,500 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lydia's Mission provides jobs for women, feeds children and cares for the elderly, creating an open door to present the Gospel and allow The Lord to transform hearts.
What it reported doing in 2025
We provide jobs for women in farming, egg production, grounds maintenance and sewing. Teaching skills and reimbursed for sustainable livable wages. Employees begin each workday with worship together and participate in a weekly christian message, encouraging spiritual growth and community fellowship alongside their work. Benefits include transportation and savings match, as well as various appreciation gifts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 51
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.4%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.2% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $903K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.