Education Resource Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
954857649
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Laguna Hills, CA, USA
Phone
9497732189
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,283
Expenses
$51,058
Assets
$16,441

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

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARYANN MATTHEWS (President)

People named in this filing

  • LORINDA PETERSON (Secretary)
  • MARYANN MATTHEWS (President)

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

The organization is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to assisting charitable and education projects for the common good. These objectives include teaching the science of prenatal development through website and app design for use with digital devices.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization focused in 2024 on 1) public health outreach campaigns; 2) production of educational films; and 3) publications of educational books. Ongoing accomplishments include: coalition building to facilitate the creation and promotion of the website www.erf.science, and the see baby grow mobile device app through the development of individual, foundation, and multi-group support. The relevant philanthropic goal sought to be achieved is ongoing creation and distribution of material which advance learning in the health sciences, particularly for the benefit of marginalized constituencies in the third world.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 99%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.