Classmates Literacy Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934451594
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Middleton, WI, USA
- Phone
- 7739652511
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,168
- Expenses
- $81,036
- Assets
- $26,479
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- KRISTEN EIDSON (EXECUTIVE DI)
- JILLAYNE BENJAMIN (VICE PRESIDE)
- MELISSA NGO (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of classmates literacy foundation ("clf") is to improve literacy outcomes for learners of all ages and backgrounds by providing teachers with structured literacy training in the slant system. Slant system for structured language training is a research based, orton- gillingham, multi-sensory approach to reading instruction, which empowers educators with the knowledge to impact lives by providing students with the life-changing gift of literacy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Classmates literacy foundation (clf) works to close literacy gaps for students who face significant barriers to reading success. The organization provides structured literacy professional development and classroom resources grounded in the science of reading, enabling educators to deliver effective, evidence-based instruction. Founded to confront the deep disparities in reading outcomes, clf prioritizes students with the greatest literacy needs, including those with dyslexia and other learning differences, particularly in under-resourced and under represented communities. Classmates literacy foundations teacher training and classroom support program eliminates barriers to effective reading instruction by providing structured literacy professional development and classroom materials to educators serving students with the greatest literacy needs, including those with dyslexia and other learning differences. The program prioritizes under-resourced schools and historically marginalized communities, equipping teachers with the skills and tools needed to deliver evidence- based instruction. In 2025, we provided 45 teachers serving 1,572 students/year with 1,300 hours of accredited structured literacy training. Through our fiscal sponsorship of the dyslexia achievement center, the organization helps remove financial barriers to specialized reading intervention, enabling students with significant literacy needs to access services they would not otherwise be able to receive.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.1%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 199.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.1% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $76K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.