Meticulously Creating Legacies Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
852140598
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Virginia Beach, VA, USA
Phone
(757) 524-0376
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$242,825
Expenses
$240,175
Assets
$7,849
Liabilities
$271

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lorie Fisher (President)
  • Nichole Hickman (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Lorie Fisher (President)
  • Nichole Hickman (Vice President)
  • Rachel Lugo (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

WE COMBAT hunger AMONG THE HOMELESS, food insecurities AMONG the economically disadvantaged, and IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OUR AGING POPULATIONS in our communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our organization provides food assistance and supportive services to vulnerable populations throughout our community, including older adults, homeless and unhoused individuals, and financially struggling individuals and families. Services include monthly distributions of nutritious groceries, fresh fruits and vegetables, snack bags, pantry staples, personal hygiene items, clothing, cleaning supplies, and other essential household items. We also provide limited emergency assistance, including hotel stays for individuals experiencing homelessness when shelter is unavailable. For older adults, we offer healthy food options tailored to common dietary needs and conduct wellness check-ins to support improved health outcomes. Through partnerships with local shelters and community organizations, we work to reduce food insecurity, promote stability, and improve the overall quality of life for those we serve. For 2025, our organization served 3,830 meals and 3,700 individuals, which included our monthly snack bags, monthly groceries, Holiday baskets, etc. We distributed a total of 17,000 pounds of food, 2,200 pairs of Bombas socks (adults and children), 600 pairs of Bombas underwear (adults), 350 t-shirts (adults), 1,600 pairs of Bonfolk socks (adults and children), 100 pairs of Victoria Secret underwear, 50 Bras for Girls bras, 180 book bags, and 36 Operation Warm coats.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 96.4%; rating input score 96
  • Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 56.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 49% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 96.4% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $234K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.