Long Island Language Arts Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020612304
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Syosset, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5166246547
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Professional Societies, Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,409
- Expenses
- $45,078
- Assets
- $147,855
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KERRY VANN (PAST PRESIDENT)
- NICOLE WALDBAUER (President)
- KAREN MEIER (Vice President)
- KYRIE SIEGEL (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DR LOUISA KRAMER-VIDA (Treasurer)
- KERRY VANN (PAST PRESIDENT)
- NICOLE WALDBAUER (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
To foster professional improvement leading to superior teaching and to promote the highest standards of professional ethics. Lilac's mission is to support the english language arts and literacy goals of teachers and schools across long island. To that end, we offer two annual mini grant awards of $500 each, one elementary and one secondary. The members of the mini-grant committee review all applicants and choose the best ideas. Lilac also holds after school workshops, professional development networking events and annual conferences.
What it reported doing in 2025
After school workshops, professional development networking events and annual conference.
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
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.8%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.6%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.28; rating input score 76; 76th 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: 32.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.8% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.