Center for the Future of Learning

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992753325
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Phone
7023064871
Rating
55
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,249,873
Expenses
$1,117,222
Assets
$13,549,777
Liabilities
$17,707

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeanine Collins (President and Chief Impact Officer)
  • Sean Parker (Treasurer Secretary and CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Jeanine Collins (President and Chief Impact Officer): $209,603 total reported compensation
  • Sean Parker (Treasurer Secretary and CEO): $198,532 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning brings together educators young people and community leaders to foster collaboration co-create innovative programs and share proven practices that address todays challenges while shaping a thriving tomorrow. By connecting people and organizations we cultivate a dynamic learning ecosystem that drives economic vitality and community strength.

What it reported doing in 2025

State & District Support to Modernize Teaching and Learning Nevada Portrait of a Learner: The Center for the Future of Learning partnered with Nevadas Department of Education regional education agencies and local school districts to design and implement the Nevada Portrait of a Learner. This statewide framework redefines what student success looks like in a rapidly changing world-centering on competencies such as critical thinking collaboration civic identity and learner agency. CFL facilitated regional workshops supported pilot school sites in adapting the Portrait into practice and trained 100+ educators through capacity-building sessions.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 93% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 31
  • Sustainability: 83
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 9.2%; rating input score 9
  • Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $668.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 3rd 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: 90.1%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.13; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 36.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 152.5% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 103.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 119.7% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 9.2% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 2 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $930K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $210K · 2 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 9/100.
  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.