Education for Scholars Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461483066
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Tulsa, OK, USA
- Phone
- 9189550302
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $152,656
- Expenses
- $178,392
- Assets
- $59,823
- Liabilities
- $1,053
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- MERLEANNA DICK (EXECUTIVE DI)
- SHADRACK KOECH (TREASURER)
- ISAAC CAUSEY (BOARD CHAIR)
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
To partner with students, parents, educational institutions, and other like-minded communities to ensure a successful future for youth.
What it reported doing in 2024
2023 accomplishments: -increased income from 2021 to 2023 by 453% -increased board membership by 6 new members -16,709.65 raised to open our youth and family resilience center -formed a capacity building team consisting of 4 board member lead committees -added 9 new foundations and donors. Scholars reached (2022-2023) -187 scholars -6 hs student interns -23 participated in college tours -25 participants at the annual family career fair stem + college and career results (2022 - 2023) -100% hs scholars in enrolled college test prep -98% reported an increased knowledge of college and career readiness -80% juniors and seniors accepted to college -53% made application to attend college or tech school to obtain a stem careers -67% increased knowledge of stem careers and activities
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.