The Livin' Room
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842157374
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Huntsville, AL, USA
- Phone
- 9292562820
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,284
- Expenses
- $134,887
- Assets
- $178,672
- Liabilities
- $1,224
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAYLOR REED (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RANDY FOWLER (PAST PRESIDE)
- JERRY MERCER (TREASURER)
- APRIL BODDIE (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The mission is to provide a community shelter helping homeless people and spreading faith.
What it reported doing in 2025
Program service accomplishments include hosting 491 community events; hosting multiple support groups, including parenting, addiction, and marriage enrichment; providing shower facilities and laundry essential provisions for those in need; and serving over 6,000 meals over the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 77% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.1%; 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: -16%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.32; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K 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: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 9/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.