Indiana Small and Rural Schools Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274411192
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Kokomo, IN, USA
- Phone
- 4632265002
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $90,570
- Expenses
- $74,195
- Assets
- $95,496
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Keith Nance (President)
- Don Street (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Keith Nance (President)
- Don Street (Vice President)
- Suzzane Blake (Board Member)
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
The primary purpose of our organization is to provide a voice for other educational and business groups: to be a focus organization in our state and to be recognized as a voice with other educational and business organizations regarding issues and matters affecting small and rural schools in our state. We are the organization recognized as concerned with and as a resource for discussing issues on this topic in the state. We see ourselves as the placeholder "at the table" as well as the contact for these issues. As an incorporated and 501(c)4 organization, we will be able to strengthen our position as a more formal organization in our state. While we have provided this service to members in a less structured manner for over 20 years, this position will be held in higher regard as a formal organization. This work will be carried out by the Board, Executive Director, and our membership.
What it reported doing in 2025
We successfully communicated and discussed issues related to rural communities and small schools with Indiana State and Indiana Congressional Policy Makers in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.4%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 65.2%; rating input score 65
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.1%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.7%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 120% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.4% of revenue deployed · 65.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.