And surely they have been using them, not sitting on them needlessly.  If any $$ are left, it must be reserves for payroll or other expected future expenses.

They are also not likely to leave profits sitting in the company's bank account.  They must have paid out most of the profits to investors, including themselves.  They cannot be forced to use that money to save the company (that is what "LLC" means), unless they have done something very wrong in the management of the company and are criminally prosecuted for it.