Data Quality Campaign Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274566795
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2023934372
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,867,847
- Expenses
- $6,466,981
- Assets
- $5,494,692
- Liabilities
- $997,674
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer K Bell-Ellwanger (CEO/President)
- Molly Mercer (Vice President (JUN 24 - PRESENT))
- Paige D Kowalski (Executive Vice-President)
- Rachel Anderson (Vice President)
- Katherine R Tromble (Vice President)
- Brennan A Parton (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jennifer K Bell-Ellwanger (CEO/President): $458,356 total reported compensation
- Paige D Kowalski (Executive Vice-President): $416,401 total reported compensation
- Roxana L Galan (CFO/Treasurer (till Dec-2024)): $335,739 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Data Quality Campaign is a national, nonprofit organization leading the effort to bring every part of the education community together to empower educators, parents, and policymakers with quality information to make decisions that ensure students achieve their best.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization launched in 2005 by 10 national organizations. DQC is based in Washington, DC and works at the national, state, and community levels. When students, parents, educators and policy makers have the right information to make decisions, students achieve their best. DQC is leading the national effort to make this vision a reality by working in a broad-based coalitions to ensure that people have the high-quality education data they need and the tools and conditions to use it to help students succeed in schools and beyond. DQC's Goal are: - Increase public understanding of the value of educational data. - ensure everyone with a stake in education has timely access to the information needed to support students success. - improve the capacity of and conditions for teachers and school leaders to use data to support student learning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $25.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -67.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $458K · 18 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $228K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.