Framers Projects
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810786699
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Ashburn, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7038670855
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,010,107
- Expenses
- $656,735
- Assets
- $361,744
- Liabilities
- $8,372
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CATALINA LAURENZANO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- CHRISTINE DEWITT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CATALINA LAURENZANO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $50,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We serve exceptional students whose needs are not adequately met in traditional public educationbycreating an inclusive academic community where they develop a deep sense of belonging and curiosity, are empowered to think critically, and discover true meaning in their learning.
What it reported doing in 2025
We serve exceptional students whose needs are not adequately met in traditional public education by offering private school education for grades 6 through 12 in an inclusive academic community where they develop a deep sense of belonging and curiosity, are empowered to think critically, and discover true meaning in their learning, so they can face the world with courage, kindness, and confidence. Students who thrive at lsas are exceptional learners, including gifted, profoundly gifted, neurodiverse, and twice-exceptional (2e) students whose educational needs are best met through small classes, relationship-centered learning, and rigor without pressure.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 39.8%; rating input score 40
- Program expense ratio: 61.2%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $144.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 39.8% of revenue deployed · 61.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $402K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 9 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.