Idaho Business for Education Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203565109
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Boise, ID, USA
- Phone
- 2082861872
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development - Business
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,839,544
- Expenses
- $1,817,777
- Assets
- $319,784
- Liabilities
- $8,248
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAULA D KELLERER (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- PAULA D KELLERER (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $132,799 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 organization's main mission is to have 60% of Idaho's 25-34 year olds have some kind of post-secondary degree or professional certification. Ibe works to promote a state education system that will provide its students with a high quality education that ensures the well-educated workforce our businesses and economy require, will anticipate and serve the current and future needs of the economy and utilizes processes that are efficient, accountable, responsive, innovative and high performing.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth apprenticeship program. Through a joint effort with the Idaho workforce development council, Idaho department of labor, and Idaho career and technical education, ibe is scaling up idahos youth apprenticeship program with a goal of placing 400 apprentice positions. Ibe youth apprenticeship connects 16-24 year-olds to jobs, training, and careers in Idaho. Building workforce-ready labor requires a collaborative effort among government, business, and education. Ibe youth apprenticeship provides education, work experience, and access to postsecondary education, training, and certifications and it helps us reach idahos goal of having 60% of our 25 to 34 year-old workers hold a postsecondary credential.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 76% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.5%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 1.2%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.5% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 32 of 32 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 32 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.