Liabilities / Assets
Score unavailable
Liabilities-to-assets requires both liabilities and assets on this filing.
Precomputed percentiles for this filing year versus similar nonprofits in the same peer cohort.
Liabilities / Assets
Score unavailable
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Liabilities / Revenue
Score unavailable
Liabilities-to-revenue requires both liabilities and revenue on this filing.
Net Margin
6th percentile
Higher net margin than 6% of similar nonprofits.
Top Officer Pay
79th percentile
Higher top officer pay than 79% of similar nonprofits.
Top officer pay equals 0.0% of source-year revenue.
Asset Growth
15th percentile
Faster asset growth than 15% of similar nonprofits.
Revenue Growth
10th percentile
Faster revenue growth than 10% of similar nonprofits.
Assets
Down$207,842
Down $125,883 (-38%) from 2023
Net Assets
Down$207,842
Down $125,883 (-38%) from 2023
Liabilities
-
No earlier filing loaded for comparison.
Revenue
Down$149,986
Down $172,580 (-54%) from 2023
Expenses
Up$275,869
Up $131,870 (+92%) from 2023
Net Income
Down-$125,883
Down $304,450 (-170%) from 2023
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.
LFI offers practical processes and imaginative solutions resulting in ecological land use planning, landscape architecture, participatory design with multiple, systemically linked, interactive, community and school programs, which also function as community and economic development for the area, resulting in transformation of the community.
| Description | Grants | Expenses |
|---|---|---|
| Executive Leadership & Organizational Turnaround Under the leadership of Executive Director China Bushell, Life Frames Inc. successfully completed the OMI/Excelsior Nature Walkwaya major infrastructure project that had been stalled for over three years. Within just six months, the ED and staff: oPartnered with Alrie Middlebrook, who redesigned the nature pathway with native and pollinator plants; oOversaw full construction and planting of the walkway; oSecured $450,000 in reimbursements within three months, stabilizing the nonprofits finances and allowing the projects completion. Youth Workforce & Education Impact Supported over 70 underserved youth (ages 1524) in paid internships and stipended leadership positions across New York and San Francisco. Delivered green jobs training through hands-on work in garden maintenance, landscape design, and sustainability education. Partnered with OFA, MYEEP, SFYWs, and JCYC to provide wraparound services and equitable employment pathways. Community Engagement & Environmental Education Facilitated weekly youth gardening classes rooted in Indigenous ecological knowledge, especially from the Ohlone tradition. Continued Vegetable & Me classes for seniors on Roosevelt Island, emphasizing therapeutic horticulture, nutrition, and community building. Piloted a youth food initiative providing healthy snacks and meals to underserved SF students, addressing the gap left by citywide funding cuts. | - | - |
| Name | Title | Full / Part Time | Base | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| China Bushell | Executive Director | PT | $0 | - | - |
| Steven Dupont-Kalani | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Robert Croonquist | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Ingrid Dinter | Director | - | $0 | - | - |
| Caryl Hodges | Chairman | - | $0 | - | - |
| Andrea Lowenkopf | Secretary | - | $0 | - | - |
“Other Revenue $55”
“Advertising and Promotion $542”
“Office Expenses $46”
“Information Technology $6854”
“Insurance $8789”
“Teachers/Contractors $135201”
“Intern/Stipend $24531”
“Repairs/Maintenance $20283”
“Plants/Materials $13076”
“Event Expense $5000”
“Honorarium $1500”
“Auto $1346”
“Installation $1018”
“License $375”
“Bank fee $185”
“Taxes $100”
“Misc $49”
“Accounts Receivable - Beginning $180000 Accounts Receivable - Ending $129585”
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