The Pelham Education Foundation
Overview
Mission
The pelham education foundation is dedicated to enhancing the qualtiy of public education in pelham, ny. The foundations objective is to fund innovative programs that benefit students at each school in the pelham school district.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grant 2503 - communication boards
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133870584
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Pelham, NY, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports that some governance safeguards are missing and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.7%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.7; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $182K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 30 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.