The Angel Light Academy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860798005
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health Disorders

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$196,933
Expenses
$200,705
Assets
$60,138
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Julia Wilmot (President)

People named in this filing

  • Julia Wilmot (President)
  • Katherine Look (Secretary)
  • Brent Root (Treasurer)

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

Service Education Research

What it reported doing in 2025

Introduction to Angel Light Academy Angel Light Academy ALA is a 501 c3 organization founded in 1995. Its mission is to enhance the health happiness and well-being of individuals through the practice and demonstration of unconditional love. This is accomplished through education research and service. About Us Angel Light Academy is a caring resource for people of all ages who seek to change their lives. We recognize the strengths in others and build on those strengths. The organization provides opportunities to learn new skills to build confidence and for individuals to grow and be the best they can be. Through training mentoring and nurturing ALA creates inspiring leaders who provide exceptional service to others and their communities. The reputation and success of this training organization have resulted in trusted relationships with teachers school districts and community professionals resulting in increased requests for all of our programs. Founder Julia Wilmot Julia is the mother of two sons and has over thirty years of entrepreneurial business experience. Shes served as a secondary school special education and college teacher fundraiser and creator of highly successful prevention programs for children. She developed implemented and raised funds for Project Prevention a program that reached over 600,000 youth in Arizona in the 1990s. This program served as a model for prevention programs throughout the United States. In 2003 she was awarded Woman of the Year for her thirty years of community leadership and service in Arizona. ALAs Commitment to Youth ALAs experience is that children who participate in the Hope for the Future training programs show significant personal growth an increase in self-esteem confidence and problem-solving skills. With ALAs skilled guidance each child has a stronger commitment to community service and experiences an overall increase in their ability to make a difference in the quality of their lives the lives of their families and lives of their friends. Youth Leadership Kick-Off Conference This intense 2-day leadership program teaches leadership traits communication skills problem solving teamwork and community service. Students spend two days with highly trained and qualified facilitators experiencing leadership in such a way that they can take the learning and apply it to real-life situations. The use of skits games and workbooks keep students engaged with the learning. Students learn to solve their everyday problems build self-confidence and learn to become role-models for their friends and families. They identify and solve real-life school community and personal problems that they face. Students create action plans that are safe doable and can be enacted upon leaving the conference.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.9%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.9% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 8 filed program accomplishments · $167K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.