Lydias Gate
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454269605
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- MIO, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9898265703
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Temporary Housing
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,534
- Expenses
- $95,237
- Assets
- $156,909
- Liabilities
- $2,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Linda Volz (President)
People named in this filing
- Linda Volz (President)
- Louise Barnard (Secretary)
- Brenda Kauffman (Treasurer)
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 shelter for homeless people. Provide resources and support to guests to reenter society with skills and employment to be able to have their own home again.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide housing and resources for women and children who were homeless. The home was used 365 nights in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.65; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.8% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.