Future of Learning Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 871250756
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lansing, MI, USA
- Phone
- 5174923614
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $182,975
- Expenses
- $190,700
- Assets
- $56,913
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR CHRIS TIMMIS (President)
- DR JOHN VANWAGONER (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DR DAVID RICHARDS (Executive Dir.)
- DR CHRIS TIMMIS (President)
- DR JOHN VANWAGONER (Vice 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
The corporation is a group of educational, business, and community leaders organized to develop a rich understanding of the future of learning, educational innovations, build leadership capacity, and provide high quality research related to teaching and learning. The intent is to foster critical thinking and creative solutions to support the educational needs of today's learners. The corporation is designed to provide relevant professional learning experiences for all interested parties to the next generation learning and innovations in instructional models.
What it reported doing in 2024
The FLC was active providing high impact professional development workshops, learning site visits, and ongoing strategic support to member districts. The workshops were held on a monthly basis and lasted for a full day. Workshops focused on topics related to developing robust instructional frameworks, developing and implementing microschools, implementing competency-based learning models, and creating digital ecosystems. In addition to the workshops, the FLC facilitated and hosted multiple site visits throughout Michigan and the United States to allow members to observe transformed learning communities in action. Through these site visits, educators were provided the opportunity to network, gain access to best practices in personalized learning, and adapt new strategies in their local districts.
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
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: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $187K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.