Quality Life Association
Legal name: Quality Life Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592937104
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Oxford, MS, US
- Phone
- 662-801-5461
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Digestive Diseases, Disorders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,276
- Expenses
- $52,264
- Assets
- $123,418
- Liabilities
- $2,510
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTY ODLAND (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KRISTY ODLAND (PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE KELLER (VICE PRESIDE)
- KATHIE BARNETT (SECRETARY)
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
QLA is a non-profit national association aimed at meeting the special needs of the person with a continent ostomy procedure – Barnett Continent Intestinal Reservoir (BCIR), Kock, ileoanal J-Pouch and continent urostomy procedures, and to educate others of the latest advances in alternative ostomy options. To further the quality of life for those who have a continent intestinal reservoir.
What it reported doing in 2025
Qla serves to meet the special needs of persons with a continent ostomy and to educate others of the latest advances in ostomy options.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 20
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: -4%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.36; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.