Celebrate Dyslexia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842654436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2105708747
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $691,197
- Expenses
- $341,623
- Assets
- $554,677
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEZZETTE RIVERA SOLIS (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- DALIA FLORES CONTRERAS (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- JASMIN DEAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JASMIN DEAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $96,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Celebrate dyslexia is on a mission to foster a community that celebrates, educates and empowers the one in five with dyslexia through celebratory, education and medical initiatives to create groundwater change for the next generation in access to early identification and intervention. This includes building capacity of dyslexia therapists, educator and stakeholder training, strength-based awareness events and educating policymakers on the need for a definitivediagnostic code.
What it reported doing in 2024
Celebrate dyslexia is working to remove barriers to access of information, education, and intervention for students with dyslexia and their families. Strategies include experiential dyslexia 101 training seminars, the launch of a generation 28 open-enrollment charter school, celebrate dyslexia schools, and established the celebrate dyslexia learning center. The celebrate dyslexia learning center serves as a hub of intense training and resources for all local school districts. The learning center proposes to increase the numbers of qualified instructors and certified academic language therapists. The ultimate goal is for every school district in region 20 to be able to hire qualified individuals to develop in house training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 44.3%; rating input score 44
- Program expense ratio: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $48.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 50.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.62; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 78.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 100.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 44.3% of revenue deployed · 89.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $306K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.