The Center for Humane Living
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860856467
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6026923891
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,504
- Expenses
- $59,319
- Assets
- $67,792
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA A DADO MD (CEO)
People named in this filing
- DONNA HEATH (DIRECTOR)
- DOUG PALMER (DIRECTOR)
- JANICE WALLITSCHEK (DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The center for humane living (chl) empowers quality relationships, effective leadership, and life-long learning through its pay-it-forward model and transformational curriculum. This unique methodology honors the ancient martial arts while incorporating modern business theories to promote integrated well-being. Chl exists to inspire individuals to lead more peaceful and compassionate lives. Students are encouraged to be curious and empty their minds in order to continue learning from the universal truths of the martial arts. Chl provides breakthrough ideas on educating individuals of all ages, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds within the Arizona community.
What it reported doing in 2024
The center for humane living (chl) is a pay-it-forward culture that empowers quality relationships, effective leadership, and life-long learning. Chl provides breakthrough ideas on educating students through a wellness model that evolves with the student's thirst for holistic fulfillment. Our center offers numerous programs with this innovative curriculum and is free-of-charge to individuals of all ages, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds within the Arizona community.the semi-annual clothing drive gave over $11,500 worth of clothing to Arizona low-income residents and their families during 2024. The semi-annual feed the homeless projects gave over $900 in food feeding homeless and low income population in Arizona during 2024.in the wellness warriors program, counselors who are both medicalprofessionals and certified martial arts instructors help in-patient children cope with pain and anxiety. Wellness warriors is an innovative program designed to inspire, empower and enable children and their families to better manage health care challenges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 77% for direct work, and 23% for grants.
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 assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 97
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.