Children's Education Alliance of Missouri
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 208002436
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3144546544
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $516,575
- Expenses
- $619,508
- Assets
- $507,899
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR JOSEPH OJILE (PRESIDENT)
- LAVANNA WROBLEY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LAURA SLAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- PETER FRANZEN (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECT): $142,978 total reported compensation
- LAURA SLAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $65,763 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Children's education alliance of Missouri is committed to improving Missouri's k-12 education system by advancing education policies that will ensure all children have access to a high quality education now.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o.ceam staff members travel to various parts of Missouri to help potential supporters and advocates understand the nature and process of legislative policy change. Advocacy training provided by ceam helps empower parents and others to effectively engage in advocating for their own children and for changes to the educational structure that would support a family's right to choose educational settings for their children. Ceam staff monitors the educational advocacy landscape for opportunities for parents and other advocates to amplify their voices and tell their stories. In 2023, ceam trained additional parents in policy and communication. From those parents, many shared their personal stories through social media and in direct meetings with decision makers including school boards, the state board of education, staff members from the department of elementary and secondary education and with their elected officials.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.9%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 78.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $489K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.