Education Foundation for Freedom

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
812922887
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Blacklick, OH, USA
Phone
8144413171
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement

Reported finances

Revenue
$150,120
Expenses
$127,159
Assets
$54,231
Liabilities
$14,029

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DR ELAINE RICHARDSON (BOARD CHAIR/)
  • DIANN JOHNSON (VICE CHAIR)
  • DR ALICE RAGLAND (EDUCATION CH)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Education foundation for freedom focuses upon interrupting vulnerability and promoting collective empowerment for diverse women, girls and gender- expansive people of color. To this end, we provide platforms and programming to elevate and cultivate leadership in arts, culture, education, entrepreneurship, and community well-being.

What it reported doing in 2025

Columbus women and girls' fest - annually, columbus women and girls' fest celebrates and promotes women and girl-identified leaders in arts and culture. Centered in the king/lincoln-mt. Vernon area, we invite the entire columbus community to join us in celebrating and supporting the lives of women and girls. We typically have live music, performances, food trucks, games, arts and crafts, workshops, and open community forums during the festival.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92

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: 15.3%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 24.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 70.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.