Unique Minds Changing Lives Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882520844
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lewes, DE, USA
- Phone
- 3029431945
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $131,868
- Expenses
- $97,111
- Assets
- $46,601
- Liabilities
- $9,007
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Helena Gibbs (President)
- Dorothy Vann (Vice President)
- Kristy Gibbs (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Helena Gibbs (President)
- Dorothy Vann (Vice President)
- William Kittrell (Board Chair)
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
Unique Minds Changing Lives Inc is a nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring educating and stabilizing low-income individuals and families in Sussex County Delaware who are experiencing hardship The organization operates a Community Support Center that provides access to emergency food assistance housing stabilization support financial literacy education and case management services Through a Housing First approach and comprehensive supportive services Unique Minds works to address immediate basic needs while equipping individuals and families with the tools and resources necessary to achieve long-term self-sufficiency and stability
What it reported doing in 2025
During the year Unique Minds Changing Lives Inc operated a Community Support Center in Sussex County Delaware serving low-income individuals and families experiencing financial hardship The organization provided emergency food assistance to approximately 193 families per month distributing over 61000 pounds of food annually In addition the organization offered emergency financial assistance to support housing stability utilities and basic needs along with individualized case management services to help clients navigate barriers to self-sufficiency Unique Minds also delivered financial literacy and budgeting support as well as youth mentorship programming through its Unique Angels Program Through these efforts the organization served over 1400 individuals and families helping to reduce food insecurity prevent homelessness and promote long-term stability within the community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
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: 26.4%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 128% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.