Field Trip Fridays

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
921051043
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Arlington, TX, USA
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$138,900
Expenses
$119,731
Assets
$20,152

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kelsey Holloway (Founder Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Chandra Lockett (Board Chair)
  • Amber-Rashel Okolo-Ebube (Vice-Chair)
  • Claire Denault (Secretary)

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

Field Trip Fridays is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to enriching homeschool education by partnering with local businesses museums farms and community organizations to provide hands-on learning opportunities for children in grades K-12. We create immersive learning experiences that bring academic concepts to life while fostering connections between families and local resources.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025 Field Trip Fridays provided hands-on learning opportunities for K-12 homeschool students across the Dallas-Fort Worth area with events regularly filling to capacity. Through subsidized pricing and financial assistance the organization ensured cost never limited access to real-world education. The Field Trips Program connected students with local businesses museums farms cultural institutions science venues sports organizations and community partners for immersive experiences that brought learning to life. Field Trips for All covered 50-80% of field trip costs for qualifying families keeping programming inclusive and equitable. Lunch & Learn Academy launched in 2025 extended that same expert-led learning to a live virtual format connecting homeschool students with authors scientists zoologists and other professionals regardless of location.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 70% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.1%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83

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: 13.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 71.1% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $99K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.