Arizona Leads
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871720747
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6026257893
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,001,458
- Expenses
- $700,259
- Assets
- $1,538,779
- Liabilities
- $114,498
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIA MEYERSON (FOUNDER AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JULIA MEYERSON (FOUNDER AND CEO): $199,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We facilitate effective, bipartisan partnerships needed to achieve educational excellence and scale success across Arizona's public schools - both district and charter.
What it reported doing in 2024
We believe in a quality and equitable education system where all students are prepared to succeed. We will go beyond incremental improvements in education and create large-scale, systemic change. Our work will build an ecosystem of supports to dramatically accelerate the creation of high performing schools serving our highest need students.we offer meaningful solutions by maximizing expertise, experience and unique perspectives. This is accomplished through collaboration among a wide variety of stakeholders, including districts, charters, experts, funders and policymakers.we bring together diverse partners to manage resources and execute strategies that will increase high-quality educational options across our state.funders have already provided support to launch this organization, proving a belief in our vision and a meaningful commitment to improving education in Arizona.
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 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.9%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 74.3%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.2; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.9% of revenue deployed · 74.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $520K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $199K · 9 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.