Ever Scouts Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873929344
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Claymont, DE, USA
- Phone
- 2063596649
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,539
- Expenses
- $508,384
- Assets
- $389,684
- Liabilities
- $8,248
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- FISH STARK (HEAD OF PROG): $150,000 total reported compensation
- BRIAN BURKHARD (DIRECTOR OF): $125,000 total reported compensation
- SUZANNE WASIOLEK (EXECUTIVE DI): $50,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation is focused on confidence, a critical skill that kids need more than ever - but often don't get direct support to develop. In fact, many kids live and learn in environments that degrade their confidence. We leverage our collective experience in life skills program development and assessment to make it so that kids everywhere can learn the skills they need to thrive. That means raising awareness among parents and educators about the importance of confidence and how to develop it, improving accessibility by identifying effective practices for building programming that is relevant and responsive to all children, improving availability by making tools avaiable to kids, free of charge, who need them most, and assessing confidence development - creating tools that accurately track confidence growth, and using data from those assessments to share insights about the promise and practice of confidence with anyone.
What it reported doing in 2023
Legends lab foundation worked with their partners at legends inc. To adapt the legends curriculum for use in schools, and provides it for free to a number of schools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 50
- Sustainability: 10
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9,078.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 63.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 132% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -197.8% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -78.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 86.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $439K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.