Education for Leadership Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271021741
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9074359000
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $391,309
- Expenses
- $350,427
- Assets
- $51,805
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ROXANNE MOURANT (CHIEF EXEC.): $17,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Innovating, developing, and providing inspiring creative learning environments for young people in underserved communities around the world and helping them to develop as problem posers and solvers and empathetic leaders.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educating for leadership works with and supports hydaburg city school district to strengthen the connection between the community and students to ensure a safe and trusting physical learning environment. It raises awareness of the critical factors contributing to more robust adult and student trusting relationships. The project identifies and addresses the need to unify governmental and non- profit agencies necessary to (1) improve safety and critical incident response awareness, (2) update the district school crisis response plan to incorporate the cultural values and behaviors of the community, (3) build nurturing cyber-safety practices that help avoid challenging and traumatic experiences, and (4) provide opportunities for youth to engage in supportive community projects. Goal 1: create a stronger and more trusting connection between the school and the community, resulting in a 100% safer school for 259 students, as measured by pre-and post-survey, focus group interviews, and behavior/discipline records. Educating for leadership works with the usda, forest service, tongass national forest, and wrangell ranger district to engage educators in a proven, adaptable framework that empowers students to strengthen their communities. Educating for leadership works with the tongass national forest as an outdoor laboratory and testing ground for stem education. They endeavor to create youth stewards with technological skills that may be applied to the environmental problems of today and tomorrow. Anan wildlife observatory is a world-class wildlife viewing area where black and brown bears feed at anan creek, home to one of the largest pink salmon runs in southeast Alaska. Educating for leadership provided training and support to the development of competency-based education, school district grant development, Mississippi valley state university (provide support to mvsu to have students produce videos for internet usage), supported the development of programs to include the university of Alaska upward bound, grant development to the bureau of justice for school safety and strengthening public safety. Educating for leadership works closely with a consortium of school districts to facilitate grants that promote school and community emergency preparedness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -15.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $313K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $17K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.