Protect Our Schools Ky
Overview
Mission
To promote public schools that serve all kentuckians, and advocating for the use of public funds to support public schools.
What it reported doing in 2025
United public education advocates and allied organizations, building on the momentum and success of the amendment 2 anti-voucher campaign.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 63% for direct work, and 37% for grants.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993058231
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Headquarters
- Frankfort, KY, USA
- Phone
- 2709295289
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 70.6%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -25.9%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -195.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -195.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -38% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 70.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.