Center for Certification Preparation and Review
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363943451
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2198719360
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,724
- Expenses
- $87,490
- Assets
- $154,650
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CYNDI SCOVEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ERMA COOKE RN MS NNP-BC (PRESIDENT)
- TERESA STANFILL DNP NEA-BC RNC-OB (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CYNDI SCOVEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ERMA COOKE RN MS NNP-BC (PRESIDENT)
- TERESA STANFILL DNP NEA-BC RNC-OB (VICE PRESIDENT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To aid participants in the study and review for certification examinations in various nursing specialties. The review includes the administration of simulated examinations.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ccpr creates and offers study materials and practice tests to help perinatal, neonatal, and women's healthcare nurses and other healthcare professionals prepare for their nationally accredited national certification corporation (ncc) and menopause society (mscp) certification examinations. Depending on specific nursing specialty, between 2% and 36% of the nurses who sat for their ncc certification exams utilized ccpr study resources in 2025. Ccpr has expanded its educational offerings with the menopause practitioner practice test to help those preparing for the menopause society's mscp menopause practitioner exam. In 2025, 800 practice tests and study workbooks were utilized.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 72.4%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -65.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 82.9% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 72.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 10/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.