Minnesota Operation Lifesaver Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 261568517
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2010–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2007
Location: Glencoe, MN, USA
Phone: 3208647203
Rating: 89
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Automotive Safety

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $67,420
Expenses: $71,963
Assets: $80,383
Liabilities: $139

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

JAMIE LUKEHART (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

HOLLI SCHAFER (TREASURER)
BRENDA RIVERA (SECRETARY)
JAMIE LUKEHART (PRESIDENT)

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

To teach people how to make safe decisions around tracks and trains to help end crashes, deaths, and injuries at highway-rail crossings on railroad property.

What it reported doing in 2025

To teach people how to make safe decisions around tracks and trains

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 98% 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 100
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 40
Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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.

Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.