Institute For Educational Studies
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581773512
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5038288106
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $63,398
- Expenses
- $71,664
- Assets
- $85,863
- Liabilities
- $77,706
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Philip Snow Gang (CEO)
- Warren Moliken (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Philip Snow Gang (CEO)
- Warren Moliken (Vice President)
- Sharon Moliken (Treasurer)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote Integrative Teaching and Learning Concepts through a Masters Program in Education through the internet
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide a Masters in Education program online in partnership with Union Institute and University where we offer a Master of Education degree. Our graduates have been recognized for contributions all over the world. Total students for 2024 was 15.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.9; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.