Liabilities / Assets
69th percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 69% of similar nonprofits.
Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.
Liabilities / Assets
69th percentile
Higher debt load relative to assets than 69% of similar nonprofits.
Liabilities / Revenue
76th percentile
Higher debt load relative to revenue than 76% of similar nonprofits.
Net Margin
4th percentile
Higher net margin than 4% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
82nd percentile
Higher top officer pay than 82% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 12.5% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
11th percentile
Faster asset growth than 11% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
10th percentile
Faster revenue growth than 10% of similar nonprofits.
Assets
Down$168,732
Down $133,220 (-44%) from 2018
Net Assets
Down$164,648
Down $122,626 (-43%) from 2018
Liabilities
Down$4,084
Down $10,594 (-72%) from 2018
Revenue
Down$105,991
Down $95,378 (-47%) from 2018
Expenses
Up$228,617
Up $37,133 (+19%) from 2018
Net Income
Down-$122,626
Down $132,511 (-1341%) from 2018
Life Frames, Inc. is the non-profit sponsor of A Living Library, or A.L.L., for short. A Living Library provides a powerful systemic framework, series of strategies, and methodologies for planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining, place-based greening in diverse communities and schools integrated with hands-on, interdisciplinary, standards-based curricula (PreK-16-and beyond) during the school day, after school, and summers. Young people with caring adults create a more ecological environment in their school-yard, neighborhood, and community, while learning multiple subjects and having real-world experience. A goal is to link Branch Living Library & Think Parks locally and globally through communications technologies so people in diverse communities can share commonalities and diversities of their cultures and ecologies.
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Programs for the year included A Living LibraryGarden/Ecology/Multi-Arts/Literacy/Nutrition Programs for children and youth atmultiple Branch Living Library & Think Park sites in San Francisco and New York Cityworking with students during the school day, after school and summer with continued development and master planning of our various Branch Living Library & Think Park sites in each community: OMI/Excelsior and Bernal Heights in San Francisco and Roosevelt Island in New York City. This year we also continued to develop and expand the prototype Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park Nature Walk at the OMI/Excelsior Branch by developing new California Native Learning Zones in the Rear Yard of James Denman Middle School with students, neighbors and other volunteers. We envision that the Nature Walk as prototype for the whole Islais Creek Watershed, the largest in San Francisco, can be expanded eventually to interconnect the eleven communities of the Watershed. Next year we will be transforming Seneca Avenue adjacent to the four public schools in the OMI/Excelsior Branch site that will further support this effort. Additionally, A Living Library was exhibited internationally in Venice, Italy and Reno, Nevada. We also reached out to other cities in the US, and other parts of the world, to establish unique place-based, Branch Living Library & Think Parks. | - | - |
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| Bonnie Sherk | Executive Director | FT | $13,246 | - | $13,246 |
| Dr Caryl Hodges | President | - | $0 | - | - |
| Sherrill Kazan Alvarez DToledo | Nyc Executive | - | $0 | - | - |
| Jay Begler | Treasurer | - | $0 | - | - |
| Robert Croonquist | Nyc Executive | - | $0 | - | - |
“Insurance $4195”
“Installation $77776”
“Teachers $48798”
“Program Management $21314”
“Licenses $9210”
“Materials and Plants $8208”
“Land Architect $7860”
“Student Stipend $3361”
“Payroll tax $2712”
“Program Administration $2593”
“Plant Establishment $2112”
“Telephone $1921”
“Maintenance $1672”
“Administration $1200”
“Art/Nutrition/Cooking Supplies $216”
“Taxes $150”
“Membership $60”
“Accounts Receivable - Beginning $75471 Accounts Receivable - Ending $0”
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