Cleveland Council of Independent Schools
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341059666
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Windsor, OH, USA
- Phone
- 4403875400
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,045
- Expenses
- $64,175
- Assets
- $159,923
- Liabilities
- $329
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MITCH WHITE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ALISON MCCLOSKEY (EXECUTIVE DI)
- MITCH WHITE (PRESIDENT)
- SARAH JOHNSTON (VICE PRESIDE)
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
To serve member schools and their constituents by promoting, supporting and enhancing the value of independent education in northeast Ohio through the facilitation of meaningful collaboration.
What it reported doing in 2024
To serve and strengthen 21 member schools by promoting high standards of educational quality and ethical behavior through special programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.49; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 64.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.6% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.