Home Education Enrichment Day Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
933722492
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Boca Raton, FL, USA
Phone
9546754122
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,254,039
Expenses
$1,055,778
Assets
$679,806
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUSAN PUCHFERRAN (President)
  • ELIZABETH BARBER (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • SUSAN PUCHFERRAN (President): $127,500 total reported compensation
  • ELIZABETH BARBER (Vice President): $51,250 total reported compensation
  • JEANNE CAMPBELL (Treasurer): $51,250 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 mission of Home Education Enrichment Day, Inc. is to serve God by assisting families in their call to educate their children at home by offering academic enrichment classes from 4-12th grades. HEED helps keep families informed on home education information and requirements, unites families to build Christian community, and encourages academic excellence.

What it reported doing in 2025

For the 20242025 school year, Home Education Enrichment Day, Inc. (HEED) served 361 students from 248 families across South Florida by providing weekly live classes designed to support and enrich their home education.HEED partners with families by offering academic instruction, a like-minded community, and parent workshopsall designed to empower home educators with the resources and confidence to teach with excellence.In addition to academics, the HEED Elementary program intentionally cultivates community and provides training opportunities for families. These include parenting classes, park days, Moms Night Out events, Dads Connect gatherings, an annual family trip to Great Wolf Lodge in Naples, Florida, and a 5th-grade graduation ceremony and celebration. HEED also produces a Christmas musical featuring more than 200 children, open to all families in the community.HEEDs Middle and High School programs organize a variety of annual events, including a Science Fair, a Shark Tank-style competition, a Student Marketplace Day, a History Wax Museum, a Geography International Day, and a High School Graduation Ceremony.HEED high school graduates are well prepared for the future, pursuing higher education at colleges and universities, advancing into technical careers, and becoming productive members of society.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 5
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 64.8%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
  • 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.8%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 21.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 61.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 34% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 64.8% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $813K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.