Tacoma Lesotho Connection
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262438807
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Tacoma, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2537378140
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- AIDS
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $126,939
- Expenses
- $73,951
- Assets
- $143,527
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sam Cregar (President)
- Linda Henry (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sam Cregar (President)
- Linda Henry (Vice President)
- Kelly Pauley (Secretrary)
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
Charitable support for orphans/vulnerable children in Lesotho
What it reported doing in 2025
Medical Brigade - visiting doctors treating patients in Mohales Hoek and surrounding villages Over 1,000 people seen, over 600 people receiving glasses)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.9%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.7%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.94; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.9% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 7 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.