Livingstone Foundation for Africa

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822668093
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Phippsburg, ME, USA
Phone
2074191960
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,371
Expenses
$74,093
Assets
$18,466

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LORNA SHAFIR (Vice President)
  • MARIE GILLETT (President)
  • INGRID MERRIFIELD (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • DAVID SHERMAN (Secretary)
  • LORNA SHAFIR (Vice President)
  • MARIE GILLETT (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We help developing communities in rural Zambia through education and health by: Financing new school facilities, donating books and educational materials, funding wells and boreholes and collaborating with NGO's and local organizations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Student Sponsorship through Project Luangwa: 15 Secondary School students and 2 University.Families in communities living in poverty in rural Zambia struggle to send their children on to secondary school. Although the government now covers tuition, students still need Transportation to the secondary school, which is usually far from their small, rural villageRoom and board while at the secondary schoolUniforms, shoes, socks, exercise books, pens and pencilsAs pupils progress through the grades they also need maths sets and scientific calculatorsAll of this is beyond the financial means of almost all rural families who survive by subsistence farming.This program provides students with the tools and materials needed to go through secondary school, rather than being forced to stay home with all which that entails (working on the farm, having families as teenagers and having no hope for change).

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 29
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98

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: -5.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 21; 21st 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: -52.9% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -42.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $73K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.