Einstein Advocates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994066399
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dripping Springs, TX, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $164,922
- Expenses
- $155,828
- Assets
- $9,094
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MaryElizabeth Merrill (CEO)
People named in this filing
- MaryElizabeth Merrill (CEO)
- Liesl West (Director)
- Natalie Pool (Director)
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
Aid persons who are neurodivergent and their families by advocating for them providing tools and resources to assist them and educating communities on how to best serve their needs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Trained 58 teachers and school district leaders on neurodivergence awareness and support specifically dyslexia ADHD autism dyslexia dysgraphia and dyscalcula. Presented and published research and academic papers at academic conferences on neurodiversity in education at Stanford Medical School Oxford University St. Annes College IICE Conference Dublin as well as the World Congress of Special Needs held in Kenya. Provided travel support for 12 families with neurodivergent children to attend the annual Center for Exceptional Children conference. Visited schools and met with school officials and teachers to compare international program development for neurodiversity in the US Washington and Texas Japan Ireland and the UK. Met with and provided 50 members of the US Congress and their staff educational materials on neurodivergence and education.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
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: 5.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $136K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.