American Council on Rural Special Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870510872
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Morgantown, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3042933450
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $106,314
- Expenses
- $119,441
- Assets
- $132,997
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Sundeen (PRESIDENT)
- Pamina Abkowitz (Past President)
- Annemarie Horn (President-Elect)
People named in this filing
- Kim Floyd (Co-Coordinator)
- Todd Sundeen (PRESIDENT)
- Alexandra Hollo (Co-Coordinator)
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
American Council on Rural Special Education strives to provide leadership and support that will enhance services for individuals with exceptional needs, their families, and the professionals who work with them and for the rural communities in which they live.
What it reported doing in 2024
Assistance with education for future teachers through scholarships, support for research for future researchers through grants, and recognition for current teachers with awards for outstanding programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.