El Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061576405
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2012
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122394455
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,254,976
- Expenses
- $34,638,705
- Assets
- $16,644,697
- Liabilities
- $4,681,213
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID SCOTT HARTL (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID SCOTT HARTL (PRESIDENT/CEO): $473,815 total reported compensation
- TONYA HORTON (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $297,855 total reported compensation
- LYNNETTE BRENT (CHIEF PRODUCT & SALES OFFICER): $272,198 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
El education is a leading k-12 nonprofit helping to build great schools in diverse communities across america, focusing on a three-dimensional vision of student achievement that includes mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality student work. El education is transforming classrooms through its public-school partnerships and nationally recognized resources, including its literacy curriculum, videos, and books.
What it reported doing in 2024
Curriculum delivery: designed to permanently shift instruction, assessment, and school culture. These partnerships provide targeted professional development for both teachers and leaders, with personalized coaching and lasting school structures. El education also engages in professional development partnerships with schools, districts and states in implementation of our top-rated english language arts curriculum. Through integration of our teacher-developed curriculum, high quality professional learning and on-the-ground coaching services, our partnerships transform teacher practice and improve student achievement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 67%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.5%; rating input score 95; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -7.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 67% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $23.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $474K · 38 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 27 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.