Center for Equity Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852987444
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Manchester, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7345628346
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,133
- Expenses
- $269,515
- Assets
- $26,505
- Liabilities
- $203,984
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KATHERINE LASHER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- COLLEEN SCHOENFELD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KATHERINE LASHER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- COLLEEN SCHOENFELD (PRESIDENT)
- CATHERINE SCHOENFELD (TREASURER)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The center for equity education ("cfee") was founded in 2020 to address a gap in expert-led education provided to organizations, such as k-12 education and university institutions. Cfee focuses on federal and state civil rights by educating organizations and investigating grievances related to harassment and discrimination, including sexual harassment under titles vi and vii of the 1964 civil rights act, as amended, as well as title ix of the education amendments of 1972, the americans with disabilities act of 1990, and other related laws and statutes.
What it reported doing in 2022
Investigative services - 10-15 contractors are paid $50-$75 per hour, and there are three salaried employees
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 5
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -89.6%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 7.7; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 131.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 184.6% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $270K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2022
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.