Universal Gratitude Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
320479608
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Lake Ozark, MO, USA
Phone
5732164991
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Public Foundations

Reported finances

Expenses
$907
Assets
$4,544

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VALERIE LITTRELL (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • VALERIE LITTRELL (PRESIDENT)
  • STEVEN LITTRELL (DIRECTOR)
  • MALARI VANDERVORT (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The main focus of universal gratitude is to practice gratitude for individual good fortune and to show that gratitude by helping others in need, concentrating on their mind, body, and spirit.

What it reported doing in 2025

Expressing gratitude by helping those in need - focusing on mind, body, and spririt.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 38
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $907 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.