Livermore Laboratory Employee Services Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943100361
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Livermore, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9254229402
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,530,445
- Expenses
- $2,542,075
- Assets
- $1,348,500
- Liabilities
- $32,649
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SHERYL GOODMAN (President)
- ANITA GURSAHANI (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- SHERYL GOODMAN (President): $1,800 total reported compensation
- CYNTHIA THOMAS (Treasurer): $1,050 total reported compensation
- ANITA GURSAHANI (Vice President): $900 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization is dedicated to helping lawrence livermore national laboratory recruit and retain an employee work force with world class skills and to offer that contemporary work force services that reduce stress and help improve performance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Networking groups - livermore laboratory employee services association provides organization sponsorship of dozens of various activity groups for assorted interests, such as archery, bridge, kayaking and golf. Each group is required to report its activities to llesa. Revenues are generated by most groups in order to pay fees and expenses associated by their activity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.3%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.3% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.