Gardner Edgerton Schools Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 481084300
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Gardner, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9138562031
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $345,793
- Expenses
- $239,729
- Assets
- $1,697,066
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Adrian (President)
- Cassie Valentine (Vice President)
- Tim Brady (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Tim Brady (Executive Director): $50,000 total reported compensation
- Cassie Medina (Secretary): $9,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Gardner Edgerton Schools Foundation will inspire the community to connect in a manner that fosters a thriving, inclusive, and supportive environment by elevating education and enriching the lives of students, staff and families.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Foundation provided financial support to USD 231 Gardner Edgerton teachers, students and community members affected by hardship.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and the organization raises money at a relatively low cost. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.9%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 51.5%; rating input score 51
- Fundraising efficiency: $5,053.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.08; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.6%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.9% of revenue deployed · 51.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 17 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $50K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.