Carlynton Education Foundation Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
473663798
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Carnegie, PA, USA
Phone
4125599556
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,008
Expenses
$37,678
Assets
$208,733
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lisa Rowley (President)
  • David Robb (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Lisa Rowley (President)
  • David Robb (Vice President)
  • Isabel Ford (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The goal of the Carlynton Education Foundation is to provide support for educational programs projects and activities that are innovative enriching and provide support for the student body. These programs are beyond the means of standard school funding. The Foundation currently fund Educational Enrichment Grants Classroom Mini-Grants and Post-Secondary Scholarships.

What it reported doing in 2025

Five Special Project Grant were awarded across the district. One special project supported an in-class Young Playwrights workshop at the high school approximately 25 students. In June the Foundation provided funding for the Book Fair providing casual reading books free of charge to all elementary students approximately 1,200 students. Additionally the Foundation awarded both elementary schools approximately 1,200 students funding to defray field trip transportation costs for the 2024-2025 school year. In December the Foundation funded the district initiative to pilot translating earbuds for high scholl and middle school ESL students and classroom teachers. The initiative is to assist students who are entering the ESL program to communicate with their classroom teachers. The pilot program is being tested in a middle school math classroom and a high school social studies classroom approximately 10 students are part of the program. Currently the Carlynton School Districts student population includes around 15% ESL students speaking 21 different languages.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 59.7%; rating input score 60
  • Program expense ratio: 95.1%; rating input score 95
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 87.7%; rating input score 88; 55th 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; 64th 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 37.2%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.54; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 59.7% of revenue deployed · 95.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $36K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.