Claymont Society For Coninuous Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550549994
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Charles Town, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3047254437
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $696,890
- Expenses
- $506,737
- Assets
- $1,854,966
- Liabilities
- $173,614
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amy Silver (Executive Director)
- Jack Chromey (Chair & President)
Highest reported compensation
- Amy Silver (Executive Director): $41,685 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through continuous education that supports diverse spiritual practice in daily life, we seek to promote the balanced and harmonious development of people, community, and the broader world. We build on the foundation established by JG Bennett and his teachers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide education in philosophies and methods for improving the quality of life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 27.3%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.66; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $435K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.