Live Like Lisa Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825005986
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- South River, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 3477339254
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $43,357
- Expenses
- $32,146
- Assets
- $33,447
- Liabilities
- $700
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAMELA MCCLELLAN (PRESIDENT/DI)
People named in this filing
- PAMELA MCCLELLAN (PRESIDENT/DI)
- KEVIN MOYLAN (TREASURER/DI)
- HARRY ARBUS (SECRETARY/DI)
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
Live like lisa foundation's mission is to inspire hope and contribute to individuals and families affected by terminal disease. Our foundation was founded in the loving memory of lisa arbus, a woman whose compassion for others was unparalleled and whose life was cut short tragically due to terminal illness. Lisa arbus was a devoted teacher, and as an educator she gravitated toward students who needed her most, encouraging them to aspire to be more and to do more. These students typically came from troubled and/or financially disadvantaged households and gravitated to lisa as much as she to them. The live like lisa foundation incorporation's mission will also be to assist students furthering their education with tuition, learning AIDS and other education expenses. The live like lisa foundation, inc. Will promote and foster in every lawful manner the tenants of our mission. The live like lisa foundation, inc. Will have programs to provide financial assistance to members of the community
What it reported doing in 2025
Live like lisa foundation's mission is to inspire hope and contribute to individuals and families affected by terminal disease. The organization was founded in the loving memory of lisa arbus, a woman whose compassion for others was unparalleled and whose life was cut short tragically due to terminal illness. Live like lisa foundation, inc. Will promote, foster and advance in every lawful manner helping people stricken with terminal disease, including but not limited to cancer. The primary way we plan to accomplish this will be to organize fundraisers whose proceeds are used to support our personal medical grants. Live like lisa foundation, inc. Will have a program to assist members of the community suffering from terminal illness with high medical bills. Individuals must provide documentation to verify his or her diagnosis is terminal and provide copies of the medical bill. All persons looking to have financial assistance with medical costs for these treatments will be required to submit an application. We will evaluate applications based on the applicant's financial needs. Applicants with financial need are defined as those who earn no more than 200% of the federal poverty guideline for a household of their size. All treatments must be under 1,000.00 in order to qualify. The application has a section that requires parents to describe the treatment and the current studies relating to it. All treatments must be documented in scientific journals or scholastic studies to be considered.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 81% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
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: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.04; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.