Fermilab Friends for Science Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 363238148
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Batavia, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6308403094
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $25,714
- Expenses
- $6,881
- Assets
- $182,673
- Liabilities
- $365
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TOM CARTER (President)
- DR MILTON HARRIS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SUSAN DAHL (Executive Dir.)
- GREGORY MEEDER (Director)
- TOM CARTER (President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Enhance the quality of precollege science education in public and provate schools, encourage young people to pursue careers in science and engineering, and to promote a broader public awareness and understanding of science.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided innovative science education programs at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory. The Organization sponsors workshops and institutes, curriculum development projects, conferences, and responds to local requests for speakers, science fair judges and presenters, as well as gives awards scholarships to students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.9%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 74.5%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 73.2%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 26.55; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.9% of revenue deployed · 74.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.