Peggy Lillis Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814663562
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9173644658
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $393,876
- Expenses
- $356,947
- Assets
- $45,461
- Liabilities
- $24,569
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTIAN JOHN LILLIS (Executive Director)
- GERARD HONIG PHD (President)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTIAN JOHN LILLIS (Executive Director): $110,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Peggy Lillis Foundation is building a nationwide colostridium difficle awareness movement by educating the public, empowering advocates, and shaping policy
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024 Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF) held its ninth annual National C. diff Advocacy Summit in Washington D.C. This year, we welcomed fresh perspectives and insights into the difficulties patients and healthcare professionals are facing in the battle against C diff as well as some new strategies to prevent and treat the deadly infection. We had ten presentations, ranging from more science-based, such as Breakthrough Binding Proteins: A Paradigm Shift in Primary & Recurr- ing C. diff to ones that emphasizing public awareness, like Reaching Out: Educating the Public on AMR. We also proudly hosted several panels that featured patient voices, including our Advocates Kee Kee Buckley, Pamela McCollister, Carol Raye and Maryann Webb. (Sched O)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.2%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.95 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 9.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.13; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.2% of revenue deployed · 63.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.