Lifelong Learning Collaborative

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
800201985
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Providence, RI, USA
Phone
4012702556
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Adult, Continuing Education

Reported finances

Revenue
$99,009
Expenses
$90,528
Assets
$154,404
Liabilities
$13,738

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

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Sheila Brush (President)
  • Linda Shamoon (Vice President)
  • Joe Fisler (Past president)

People named in this filing

  • Sheila Brush (President)
  • Linda Shamoon (Vice President)
  • Eugene Mihaly (Treasurer/Finance Committee, 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

Educational opportunities for mature adults

What it reported doing in 2025

18 lectures and presentations on Zoom offered in Webinar format with 1,352 participants. Presenters included Annie Guest, Therapist; Dale Atkins, Licensed psychologist and author; Carol Cohen's as Eleanor Roosevelt; William J. Kole, Journalist and former foreign correspondent; Gayle Hanrahan, actress/playwright and theater collaborator; Dr. Nizam Missaghi; Tim Reuben, attorney and author; Heather Pouliot Kisilywcz, Genealogist; Actress Bette Smith performing a one-woman play and other attorney, authors and historians.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 46
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.7%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 50.3%; rating input score 50

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.7% of revenue deployed · 50.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 44/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.