Louisiana Library Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720643689
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Ballwin, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8008438482
- Rating
- 38
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $144,605
- Expenses
- $134,251
- Assets
- $230,577
- Liabilities
- $36,593
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS ACHEE (President)
- KENYA IVERSON (Past President)
People named in this filing
- CHRIS ACHEE (President)
- KENYA IVERSON (Past President)
- VICTORIA CIENFUEGOS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
This Corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to encourage, advance, support and otherwise promote the interests of libraries in the State of Louisiana (academic, public, school and special), including, without limitation: to encourage, advance and support high quality library collections, facilities and services that are fully adequate ot support instruction, research, self-education and pleasure-reading in order that the residents of Louisiana may be well-informed and able to achieve full self-development; through conferences, lectures, newsletters, workshops and the like, to encourage and support librarians and other members of the profession in their efforts to maintain and advance their knowledge of and skills in the field of library and infomation science, as that field continues to develop; to encourage and support scholarships in the field of library and information science; to recruit individuals to the library profession.
What it reported doing in 2024
ScholarshipsThe LLA supports several scholarship funds, including "LLA Scholarship Fund - a Trust and two scholarship funds administered through the LSU Foundation, the "Ollie H. Burns Scholarship Fund and the "Louisiana Library Association Trustee Second Award". Several scholarships are awarded each year from the funds to persons pursuing Masters in Library science degrees at the LSU School of Library and Information Science. The "Ollie H. Burns Scholarship Fund" provides scholarships to deserving minority students. The "LLA Scholarship" is awarded to a student pursuing full-time study. The "Mary Moore Mitchell" scholarship is awarded to a student pursuing part-time study. The Trustee Section Award is for employees of public libraries in Louisiana who are pursuing studies either part-time or full-time in pursuit of the Masters of Library and Information Science at LSU.
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 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.5%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 4
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.72; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -19% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.5% of revenue deployed · 3.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.