Lollys Place Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473945575
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3148004260
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $306,944
- Expenses
- $291,747
- Assets
- $114,740
- Liabilities
- $1,578
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sherley Moran (President)
- Isabel Siedband (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Mary Pat Gallagher (Board MemberExecutive Director)
- SONIA CHILDS (DIRECTOR)
- Betsy Fentress (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lollys Place is a literacy focused after school tutoring & enrichment program. LP offers one-on-one & small group tutoring plus art, yoga & mindfulness, cooking & outdoor exploration classes. Academic yr programming runs Mon-Thu 3-6pm Sep-May. Summer programs are in Jun & July
What it reported doing in 2024
LP serve children who need academic and mentoring support to supplement classroom education. Students face one or more obstacles: learning disabilities, inadequate educational support, or language barriers. Tutoring is vital to closing their achievement gap. Our goals are to foster a genuine love of learning and to help students achieve academic success. We design lesson plans to strengthen the unique way students learn best and to foster confidence in their ability to be successful in school. Historically, 80% of students have shown gains of at least two reading levels. LP welcome children of all academic abilities, ethnicities, faiths, and socioeconomic backgrounds. We value diversity and intentionally cultivate a diverse student body, staff, and volunteers. LP reached 110 children, 75% of whom received scholarships to attend our program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.8%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.8% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $241K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.