Loop It Up Savannah Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Looping literacy together - in 2025, our looping literacy together program served 51 classrooms across eight schools in chatham county. A total of 1,220 students in pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade participated in weekly lessons that used the arts as a powerful tool to inspire a love of reading. Students engaged in hands-on creative activities intentionally designed to align with selected children's books, helping to bring stories to life through artistic expression. The year also brought a major curriculum update to our kindergarten llt lessons. The revised curriculum broadened its focus to include a wider range of artistic disciplines, such as theater, visual arts, music, dance, and mindfulness. It was carefully designed to expose students to multiple forms of creative expression and to support literacy development in diverse ways. Recognizing the evolving needs of chatham county schools, loop it up piloted its first esl-focused llt class at brock elementary. This pilot was made possible through a partnership with savannah arts academy's ap spanish students, who supported weekly kindergarten llt sessions by offering translation services and building meaningful relationships with spanish speaking and bilingual learners. In 2025, looping literacy together continued to grow and adapt, including responding to teacher requests to support pace students. Loop it up piloted changes in how it served preparing students with autism for classroom education (pace) classrooms at henderson e. Formey, jr. Early learning center . To better meet the needs of these learners, loop it up restructured pace lessons around a mindfulness-based approach, creating a more intentional, calming, and accessible learning experience for students with specialized needs. Our book box library project also reached new heights in 2025. More than 5,000 books were given to over 500 students throughout the year. In this project, each student decorates a wooden crate to use as a personal home library. They then attend a loop it up book fair filled with donated books and choose 10 titles to take home. The project is designed to help foster a love of reading and support literacy and language development at home.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
• Fundraising efficiency: $12.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -38.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 11.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings