Life Learning Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203454261
IRS 990 coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Covington, KY, USA
Phone
8594310100
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Human Services N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,027,539
Expenses
$3,081,044
Assets
$16,653,207
Liabilities
$200,922

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

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALECIA WEBB-EDGINGTON (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ALECIA WEBB-EDGINGTON (PRESIDENT): $227,495 total reported compensation
  • RYAN ZAVITZ (CONTROLLER): $136,472 total reported compensation
  • TARA HIGGINS (DIRECTOR OF ENROLLMENT): $108,079 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Llc (center) is a united way-funded, nonprofit organization that works with multiple local community partners and progressive employers to take individuals who demonstrate a commitment to stable employment and prepare them for productive, sustainable careers through education, training and life coaching. The center delivers a holistic, integrated continuum of education and care to help our at risk citizens step up to their highest potential. The center is building a caring and serving community by helping people learn, secure and sustain a better way of living through gainful employment.

What it reported doing in 2025

Prepare individuals who demonstrate a commitment to stable employment, for productive, sustainable careers through education, training and life experience. Life learning center (center) has created defined collaborative program pipelines. Specifically, the center is the exclusive aftercare provider for kenton county detention center's comprehensive opiate response 12 step and jail substance abuse programs. The center also partners with the kenton county commonwealth's attorney's office on an alternative sentencing model designed for reentry. The center services an "at-risk" population presenting with the following barriers: 71% have a criminal background with the majority holding a felony conviction, 65% report $0 monthly income at program start, 61% have a history of substance abuse, 65% require transportation assistance and 70% have a mental health diagnosis.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 80
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.3%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $72.96 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 27th 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; 76th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 69.3%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.41; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 27.3% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $227K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 37 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.