Choices Education Group

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911296962
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Seattle, WA, USA
Phone
2062464237
Rating
42
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,789
Expenses
$53,871
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Leo Muller (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Leo Muller (Executive Director)
  • Richard Cordova (Board Member)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Empowering Teens to make positive educational CHOICES that will increase their career and life opportunities. Provide an interactive workshop for teens in middle schools.

What it reported doing in 2024

The problem: Everyday 7,000+ teens become high school dropouts. Each time a teen drops out he or she faces a lifetime of challenges and uncertainty and also forfeits significant lifetime earnings compared to high school graduates. But we as a nation also face a lifetime of healthcare, welfare and crime costs for each dropout. The Workshop: Into this appalling epidemic steps CHOICES, an interactive decision-making workshop that focuses on keeping teens school, motivating them toward higher education and introducing them to practical life skills. In two fast paced hour long sessions business volunteers take students through real world exercises on academic self discipline, time management and goal-setting. We were started by a Seattle dad that broke through to his troubled teenage son and 30 years later we have served more than six million teens across the nation. We currently support over 150 program sites in 15 states and engage 500 volunteers to serve over 50,000 teens every year, that's more than 250 teens every day.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 61.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -23.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -60.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.