Cpm Educational Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680331449
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Elk Grove, CA, USA
Phone
2097452055
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,558,372
Expenses
$15,718,854
Assets
$32,517,437
Liabilities
$10,998,819

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ELIZABETH COYNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY)
  • KAREN WOOTTON (DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT/PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ELIZABETH COYNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY): $242,593 total reported compensation
  • CURTIS FUHRIMAN (CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER): $228,958 total reported compensation
  • KAREN WOOTTON (DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT/PRESIDENT): $225,348 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Cpm educational program strives to make middle school and high school mathematics accessible to all students by creating problem-based textbooks and providing the professional development support necessary to implement them successfully.

What it reported doing in 2024

Curriculum and professional learningin january of 2024 the California department of education (cde) issued an opportunity for publishers to submit high quality instructional mathematics curriculum materials aligned with their new mathematics framework. Cpm committed to submitting two middle grades programs, inspiring connections and core connections in 2025. Curriculum and assessment completed work on inspiring connections (completed final checklist for the ca math adoption) and writers completed updating core connections, courses 1, 2, and 3; completed supports for these three courses (guided skills support, assessments, etc.): all in preparation for the ca math adoption in 2025.for 2024 in furtherance of cpm's commitment to professional development support provided for the classroom teachers, paraeducators, coaches, and administrators of grade 6-12 students, cpm continued to offer robust virtual and in-person learning opportunities including a teacher conference, regional events, a residential institute, the teacher research corp institute, a site-based leadership academy, and two academy of best practices institutes. Cpm attended xx conferences presenting sessions to support teacher professional learning and supporting mathematical education research and math teacher educators through the support of the amte star fellows program and participating in the aera, pnema and isdde conferences. Cpm published the mathematics coaching toolkit to support instructional mathematics coaches. Custom resource kits have been manufactured to support the teachers using the inspiring connections curriculum.cpm continued technology infrastructure development in 2024 to allow us to continue and expand our support for teachers and students using online learning. Additional functionalities have been added to the classroom curriculum delivery platform including spanish. Significant efforts were made to enhance the modules for on-demand and in-person professional learning events in the professional learning platform. Cpm has invested in software to increase operational efficiency including hubspot for managing customer relationships, service, self-serve knowledge base, and an improved customer support ticketing system; the design of a new ecommerce site (scheduled to launch in 2025), expanding the use of asana project management software, and increased professional learning to support employees in the use of the software. Cpm is continually attending to improving the support of wcag 2.0 accessibility standards and security on all our websites and digital content. Cpm conducted a security audit and developed a plan for cyclic creation of vpat reports. Curriculum and assessment completed work on inspiring connections (completed final checklist for the ca math adoption) and writers completed updating core connections, courses 1, 2, and 3; completed supports for these three courses (guided skills support, assessments, etc.): all in preparation for the ca math adoption in 2025.marketing and communications department supported curriculum and professional learning promotion and engagement with the mathematics education community at 56 math conferences in 2024.support for the preparation of future secondary mathematics teacherscpm supports the preparation of future secondary mathematics programs through its university support program (see below) and through its sponsorship of the star fellowship (see sponsorships). Cpm university support program the primary goal of cpm's university support program (usp) is to provide future 6-12 mathematics teachers with quality teaching resources as they prepare for and begin their careers. Through the usp, cpm offers complimentary access to teacher editions of cpm curriculum to mtes and their future mathematics teachers throughout their preparation, including in methods courses, practicum, and student teaching. Cpm does not provide extra teacher editions of textbooks to schools and districts that have adopted cpm; thus,

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 65
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -36%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $243K · 14 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $229K reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.