LiveOnNY

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
132945229
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Long Island City, NY, US
Phone
646-291-4444
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Organ and Tissue Banks

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$93,277,152
Expenses
$95,415,800
Assets
$76,925,749
Liabilities
$47,191,410

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LEONARD ACHAN (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • LEONARD ACHAN (PRESIDENT/CEO): $1,632,553 total reported compensation
  • CONNIE KRISTINE (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $733,175 total reported compensation
  • JAMES ARANDA (CFO): $540,303 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

LiveOnNY is a nonprofit organization committed to helping New York live on through organ and tissue donation and to caring for the families touched by donation.

What it reported doing in 2024

Donor services - liveonny coordinates the recovery of organs and tissue for transplant, which is a complex process and involves medical professionals at many different levels. Organs, such as kidneys, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, and lungs, have the potential of being recovered for liveonny by a transplant surgeon. These organs, once recovered, are transported and transplanted into the recipient patient(s). Skin, bones, and cardiovascular tissue are also recovered for liveonny and are packaged according to the food and drug administration guidelines.coordinators receive the initial communication of a potential case and are responsible for local organ allocation, logistical planning, kidney import offers, triage of referrals, and logistics for tissue donation. Donor referral and recovery services team members coordinate all aspects of the process in collaboration with the recovery teams and the quality assurance department.family services staff are responsible for coordinating a wide range of support for potential organ and tissue donor families. They establish initial contact with the potential donor family and provide trauma, grief and bereavement services for the family or identify hospital resources to provide these services. Information is articulated in a comprehensive and accurate manner to families whose ability to process information is impaired by emotionally traumatic circumstances. The coordinators offer support to potential donor families for as long as necessary. They provide two years of aftercare support and handle all communication that may occur between the donor families and the recipients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 86.3%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 86.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $82.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.6M · 32 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.8M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.