German American Apprenticeship & Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 384288542
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3125858322
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,367
- Expenses
- $11,207
- Assets
- $621,526
- Liabilities
- $36,027
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK TOMKINS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PETER RIEHLE (CHAIRMAN)
- MARK TOMKINS (PRESIDENT)
- MARIO KRATSCH (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The aim of the foundation is to support the creation and expansion of high-quality apprenticeship pathways and related education in the united states. Apprenticeship is a proven equitable solution providing a pathway to careers for all, especially enabling youth, veterans, and diverse populations to benefit from high-paying and fulfilling career opportunities without taking on debt often associated with higher education. Leveraging knowledge gained from experience with apprenticeships in germany, the foundation is dedicated to supporting their expansion in the united states and fostering opportunities for exchanging knowhow between stakeholders in both countries to further educational opportunities related to apprenticeship. The foundation supports a variety of initiatives to enable the growth of apprenticeships and related educational pathways including providing knowhow and resources to educational institutions, intermediaries, non-profits, government bodies, companies, individuals,
What it reported doing in 2025
The aim of the foundation is to support the creation and expansion of high-quality apprenticeship pathways and related education in the united states. Apprenticeship is a proven equitable solution providing a pathway to careers for all, especially enabling youth, veterans, and diverse populations to benefit from high-paying and fulfilling career opportunities without taking on debt often associated with higher education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 44
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 26.3%; rating input score 26
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 66.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 55.46; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 65.1% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -114.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 26.3% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.