Alpine Education Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800591995
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Alpine, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9519669377
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,596
- Expenses
- $181,923
- Assets
- $73,005
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA MANNING-ROSS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TAHNEE SCHON (TREASURER)
- JESSICA MANNING-ROSS (PRESIDENT)
- MELINDA DUNN (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To generate funds that support educational opportunities for students of the Greater Alpine Area to better prepare todays youth for the future.
What it reported doing in 2024
Block Grant Program - AEF, in partnership with the Alpine Union School District, operates a block grant program each fall. Every school campus is invited to submita competitive grant application. The primary purpose of the ... (See Sch O)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 24.8%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 19.5%; rating input score 19
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -27.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 32; 32nd 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: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 24.8% of revenue deployed · 19.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $35K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.