North Carolina Operation Lifesaver Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561695798
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lillington, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9196127674
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,802
- Expenses
- $84,554
- Assets
- $15,047
- Liabilities
- $198
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAHMAL PULLEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- CHERYL LEONARD (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET W CANNELL (STATE COORDINATOR): $50,160 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The promotion of railroad crossing safety through education seminars, display booths and public advertisements.
What it reported doing in 2025
The promotion of railroad crossing safety through education seminars, display booths and public advertisements
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.6%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 18
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 59.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.6% of revenue deployed · 18.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.