Core Skills Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853804188
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Olathe, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9139442325
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $316,918
- Expenses
- $317,377
- Assets
- $168,420
- Liabilities
- $39,908
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Angela Consani (CEO)
- Keith Gary (President)
- Robert Bajor (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Angela Consani (CEO): $110,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to enhance workforce readiness by providing verifiable, rigorous, skills-based assessments and digital micro-credentials that employers can trust.
What it reported doing in 2024
Performance-Based Bioscience Microcredentialing - Bioscience Core Skills Institute's primary program service is the development and delivery of performance-based microcredentials that validate hands-on bioscience and biomanufacturing laboratory skills. During the reporting year, BCSI expanded its credentialing activities across 27 states, supporting secondary schools, community colleges, universities, and workforce training programs serving students and early-career professionals. BCSI credentials are awarded through direct observation and standardized assessment using industry-aligned rubrics. Participating education and training programs consistently report that BCSI microcredentials provide graduates with a competitive advantage in employment and internship placement, and improve instructional quality by clarifying proficiency expectations. Programs also report measurable improvements in student preparedness and confidence following assessment. During the reporting period, BCSI partnered with dozens of education and workforce programs and credentialed approximately 30-45 students per program annually, depending on program size and scope. BCSI does not provide grants to individuals; program services are delivered through assessment, credential issuance, evaluator training, and technical assistance.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 70% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -0.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.7%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 30.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 69.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $221K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.