Epic - Every Person Influences Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161160182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7163324100
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,419,615
- Expenses
- $2,574,540
- Assets
- $1,533,235
- Liabilities
- $326,668
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- TARA N BURGESS (CHIEF EX. OF): $120,634 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Epic - every person influences children, inc. Is a national not-for- profit organization whose mission involves strengthening families and building community to raise children who make a positive impact in the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Family engagement in education - family engagement in education is a program to improve student achievement through the advancement of research-based family engagement policies and practices for parents. Phases include assessment, planning, and implementation of a wide-range of family engagement strategies for both the district and school levels. Implementation includes parent training, capacity building for parents, teachers and administrators and addresses ongoing parent needs related to student academic challenges, problem behaviors, and attendance throughout the school year. Consultation includes family engagement steering committees, school improvement teams and shared decision making groups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.4%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $51.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.3% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.4% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $121K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.