Serenade Love Your Neighbor Nfp

What it reported doing in 2024

The purpose of Love Your Neighbor is to equip peoples houses to become homes and care for one of the most important physiological needs which is shelter. Although many organizations provide services for shelter Love Your Neighbor is set apart because we use sustainable measures community support and a network of incredible volunteers to help our clients feel a sense of empowerment belonging and safety in their own homes. We believe that people cannot fully flourish in their daily lives if they do not first feel safe and comfortable in their own home. Thus Love Your Neighbor fully designs and furnishes the entire space providing all the items that an individual would need to make a house into a home in addition to repairing any minor damages to the home. We work to create a fully functioning space where our clients and their children can work and study in order to further their careers and education. Love Your Neighbor has a streamlined process where we work with our volunteers to furnish and assemble these homes in the most time efficient and quality manner. Love Your Neighbor is a faith-based and woman-owned organization with a clear mission reflected in our name: to love our neighbor regardless of their background or origin. In a world often lacking care connection and compassion our purpose is to be a source of expressing all three through the act of love. In 2017 Habitat for Humanity became our first partner organization and we have since added 9 other organizations including: Bridge Communities DuPage Pads Lifespring Ministries Naomis House Reclaim 13 & Families Helping Families and Family Self Sufficiency Program DuPageTo date over 138 families have been served which includes 443 individuals including children; LYN accepts any clients referred to us and does not discriminate based on race religion ethnicity sexual orientation etc. Of the 138 families served 90% are women and children; Our client base is diverse with 55% identifying as Black 35% as Hispanic and 15% as White. In 2024 LYN hired an Executive Director as well as a part time Program Coordinator. In 2025 we appointed a board member who was a recent recipient of LYN"s services.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: Limited
• Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings