Columbus Adult Education Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832392862
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Sandy, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8015123539
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult, Continuing Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,859
- Expenses
- $47,298
- Assets
- $3,911
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sean Marchant (President of Board)
- Hubert Huh (Ethnic Advisory President)
People named in this filing
- Kathy Bauman (Asst. Ed. Director)
- John Lily (Asst. Director)
- Muriel Lily (Director)
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
The Columbus Adult Education Center is honored to provide English services to adults so they may become self-reliant, productive citizens. Classes are free and are open to all religions, ethnicities, and nationalities. We Are a Faith Based Organization "Our mission is to empower individuals through English language education, self-reliance classes, and community-building initiatives. We strive to create a welcoming gathering place that fosters cultural exchange and understanding. By offering service opportunities, we aim to strengthen community bonds and promote a more inclusive society." Purpose of your Organization (one paragraph): The mission of the Columbus Adult Education Center is to empower individuals through English language education, self-reliance classes, and community-building initiatives. We strive to create a welcoming gathering place that fosters cultural exchange and understanding. By offering opportunities for service, we aim to strengthen community bonds and pr
What it reported doing in 2024
2. Program/Project Description (not to exceed two paragraphs): Columbus Adult Education Center serves more than 1,500 immigrants and refugees annually, with locations in Salt Lake City, Herriman, and Ogden, Utah. These campuses teach a variety of free classes, including English language, legal immigration assistance (taught by volunteers from the SJ. Quinney College of Law), health, music, sewing, preparedness, and citizenship, along with providing training on such topics as getting drivers licenses, dealing with schools, Utah road safety laws, etc. Our locations are used for vision clinics, tax clinics (run by the Westminster University VITA program), homeschooling organizations, and recreation, such as basketball and dance classes for the Ukrainian and South Sudanese communities-all geared to help the immigrants in our communities feel welcomed and to help them assimilate into American society while honoring the legacy of their cultures and traditions. All of these programs are taught and led by volunteers, as is the organization itself. No one at the Columbus Adult Education Center receives a salary. The main program we offer is our free English-language courses, which have been incredibly popular and valuable. Our Salt Lake campus teaches English classes to 80 students weekly, and our Herriman campus has 250 English students with approximately 400 on a waiting list. lt is our goal to reach as many or more individuals in the Ogden area, once our facility there has been remodeled for such classes. Supp01i from the R. Harold Burton Foundation would help underwrite our programming, in pat1icular the maintenance, utilities, and internet costs required at the three locations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.3%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.