Educationnc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205625322
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9195394851
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Citizen Participation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,837,540
- Expenses
- $2,368,137
- Assets
- $6,040,174
- Liabilities
- $26,142
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET M RASH (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET M RASH (PRESIDENT/CEO): $205,413 total reported compensation
- MOLLY URQUHART (COO): $154,425 total reported compensation
- NATIONS HAHN (DIRECTOR OF GROWTH): $126,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educationnc works to expand educational opportunities for allchildren in North Carolina, increase their academic attainment, andimprove the performance of the state's public schools. Ednc providescitizens and policymakers with nonpartisan data, research, news, information, and analysis about the major trends, issues, andchallenges bearing on education. Ednc gathers and disseminatesinformation employing the most effective means of communication, primarily through the internet. In addition to the contentdistributed, ednc encourages an active and connected community ofthose interested in education policy and practice throughout thestate, building an architecture for participation in conversationabout our students, state, and future. The work of ednc encouragesinformed citizen participation and strong leadership on behalf of theschool children of North Carolina.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educationnc provides North Carolina with data, research, news, information, and analysis about the major trends, issues, and challenges facing schools. It has become the state's trusted source of information about education, building the architecture for citizen participation in a statewide conversation about our students, our schools, and our state. As of june, 30, 2025, educationnc published 9,132 articles featuring voices across all 100 North Carolina counties.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.7%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 92.9%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $152.88 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.55; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.7% of revenue deployed · 92.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $205K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.