Charity profile · Historical source record

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Helping neighbors build communities
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping nonprofit community development organizations transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity -- good places to work, do business and raise children. LISC mobilizes corporate, government and philanthropic support to provide local community development organizations with: loans, grants, and equity investments; local, statewide, and national policy support; and technical and management assistance. Since 1980, we have invested $9 billion which has leveraged $28.2 billion in total development. Our accomplishments include 244,755 affordable homes and apartments and 36 million square feet of retail and community space.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

89.97Overall score
out of 100
88.30Financial score
out of 100
92.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

These are the dataset’s historical numeric fields, not a current rating or a new DonorAPI.com assessment. Read the score context ↗

Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$154,610,978
Total expenses · USD$146,056,292

Program expenses

$123,271,510.45 recorded amount
84.4%

Fundraising expenses

$7,010,702.02 recorded amount
4.8%

Administrative expenses

$15,628,023.24 recorded amount
10.7%
Fundraising efficiency
$0.05 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader
Maurice Jones
Recorded compensation
$525,768.00
Recorded compensation percentage
0.35%

These fields do not establish the current officeholder or current compensation. The metadata does not specify the denominator of the leader compensation percentage. Read with context ↗

Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Source fieldOriginal source value
ascore
Accountability & transparency score
92.0
category
Category
Community Development
description
Mission & description
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is dedicated to helping nonprofit community development organizations transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity -- good places to work, do business and raise children. LISC mobilizes corporate, government and philanthropic support to provide local community development organizations with: loans, grants, and equity investments; local, statewide, and national policy support; and technical and management assistance. Since 1980, we have invested $9 billion which has leveraged $28.2 billion in total development. Our accomplishments include 244,755 affordable homes and apartments and 36 million square feet of retail and community space.
ein
EIN
13-3030229
tot_exp
Total expenses
146056292.0
admin_exp_p
Administrative expense fraction
0.107
fund_eff
Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)
0.05
fund_exp_p
Fundraising expense fraction
0.048
program_exp_p
Program expense fraction
0.8440000000000001
fscore
Financial score
88.3
leader
Recorded leader
Maurice Jones
leader_comp
Recorded leader compensation
525768.0
leader_comp_p
Recorded leader compensation fraction
0.0034999999999999996
motto
Tagline
Helping neighbors build communities
name
Charity name
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
tot_rev
Total revenue
154610978.0
score
Overall score
89.97
state
State code
NY
subcategory
Subcategory
Housing and Neighborhood Development
size
Source size label
big
program_exp
Program expenses
123271510.44800001
fund_exp
Fundraising expenses
7010702.016
admin_exp
Administrative expenses
15628023.243999999

Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.