Long Island Strong Schools Alliance
Legal name: Long Island Strong Schools Alliance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874235497
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Port Jefferson, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6312131966
- Rating
- 94
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Coalitions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,640
- Expenses
- $96,333
- Assets
- $18,012
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aisha Wilson-Carter (President)
People named in this filing
- Aisha Wilson-Carter (President)
- Nancy Goroff (Treasurer)
- Diana Shuffler (Secretary)
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
Long Island Strong Schools Alliance (LISSA) is a nonprofit organization founded in June, 2021. Our mission is to support policies that strengthen education in our public schools, with a focus on critical thinking skills, civic engagement, diversity, equity, and inclusion. LISSA provides resources, organizational help, and information to parents, teachers, students, and community members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Organization educates community about diversity, equity, and inclusion relating to the mission of supporting public school policies. Information is available on the organizations website, as well as through social media. Materials are prepared and distributed by interns, staff, board members and volunteers.
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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.9%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 72.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.