Life Thru a Lens Llc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473334837
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Dayton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 9375103238
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97
- Expenses
- $97
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANN BLACKBURN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANN BLACKBURN (PRESIDENT)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide photography services to those who cannot afford to pay a regular photographer.
What it reported doing in 2024
We have provided photography services to low income families who could not afford a photographer, for phosots suach as senior pictures, pictures of incarderated minors, etc.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.7%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 22.7%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -36.6% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37.9% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.7% of revenue deployed · 22.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 4 of 4 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.