Lymphedema Advocacy Group
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273937917
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7035877825
- Rating
- 49
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,725
- Expenses
- $50,309
- Assets
- $220,575
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
People named in this filing
- HEATHER FERGUSON (Board Exec Dir)
- SARAH BRAMBLETTE (Board Chair)
- BECKY SHARP (Board of Directors)
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
Help patients improve their lives
What it reported doing in 2024
LEAP - Donation was made to a related charity to fund its start-up ex
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 14%; rating input score 14
- Program expense ratio: 30%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 53.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.38; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 14% of revenue deployed · 30% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.