Gayle Lyn Kliever Student Fund

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
364658214
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Tehachapi, CA, USA
Phone
6613001186
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Relief

Reported finances

Revenue
$97,111
Expenses
$55,296
Assets
$400,913
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gayle Lyn Kliever (Chief Executive Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Gayle Lyn Kliever (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Elizabeth K Porter (Chief Financial Officer)
  • Steven B Porter (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

Mission Statement - The Goal of the Gayle Lyn Kliever Student Fund is to raise and distribute scholarships directly to worthy Tanzanian students. Scholarship help will be given to those students with ability, motivation, and potential. Recipients may be of any age. Priority is given to those with little or no family presence. The fund will also support worthwhile educational projects in Tanzania.

What it reported doing in 2025

Academic Scholarships were awarded to 88 students in Tanzania: 32 for primary school, 36 for secondary school, 16 for college and university, and 4 for vocational schools. Nineteen graduations were celebrated in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 58.9%; rating input score 59
  • Program expense ratio: 92.5%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 43.1%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.25; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 58.9% of revenue deployed · 92.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $51K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.