1887 Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921861177
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Moorestown, NJ, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125,259
- Expenses
- $57,502
- Assets
- $78,491
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian K Fitzpatrick (Chairman and President and Trustee)
People named in this filing
- Jeffrey Gosnear (Secretary and Trustee)
- Brian K Fitzpatrick (Chairman and President and Trustee)
- Albert Nanni (Treasurer and Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The 1887 Education Foundation solicits donations to benefit secondary educational institutions with a focus on securing long-term resources supporting academics and technology capital improvements and faculty and staff support. The Foundation provides scholarships educational awards and grants to Camden Catholic High School to advance student achievement and institutional excellence.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 the 1887 Education Foundation awarded $24,990 in grants to Camden Catholic High School directly benefiting students and vital programs. Grants included: a new Marimba for the CCHS Music Department $3,065; tuition assistance for students with financial hardship $10,250; fire safety equipment upgrades for the CCHS Kitchen $1,250; Football Media Day and program support $1,350; Wrestling program support including tournaments equipment and student assistance $8,575; and general operating support $500. The Foundation also expanded its Board of Trustees established a Funding Committee implemented the Aplos cloud-based accounting system and launched a formal grant application process to enhance transparency and stewardship."
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.9%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54.1%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.