International Educational Foundation of America Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943236737
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Hayward, CA, USA
Phone
5107800203
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,103
Expenses
$532,134
Assets
$4,241,228
Liabilities
$33,467

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LAWRENCE AOKI (Vice President)
  • NOBUKI ISHIBASHI (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • MORIO TATENO (Secretary): $152,354 total reported compensation
  • LAWRENCE AOKI (Vice President): $127,393 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide educational services on moral, ethical and religious traditions of industrialized societies to newly emerging cultures in former communist and undeveloped countries.

What it reported doing in 2024

IEF promotes character-based education as the most fundamental part of human education. IEF believes that individuals who developed their character and heart through quality character-based education become the most fundamental basis for creating healthy family, society and a world of peace. IEF believes that we must start with creating morally healthy individuals in order to ultimately achieve a world of peace, which is our final goal.To this end, IEF held a few conferences on such topics as Need for Moral Education, Family as the School of Love and Conflict Resolution in the US and other countries during 2023 Fiscal Year. We shifted to online gatherings in the US since the onset of Covid-19 and mostly kept that way and held a few online discussion sessions. Other places such as Mombasa, Kenya, together with our regular associates we were able to host in-person conferences. Some of these conferences were collaborated with other non-profit organizations including traditional faiths and youth organizations which share similar views of education. IEF plans to strengthen its network of alliances with other like-minded organizations to reach more people.We continued updating aging teaching manuals we created more than 15 years ago. Back then we made 13 volumes of educational manuals as a result of our intense research and field practice. The updating will continue for a few more years. We held small discussion sessions as updating work progressed and fine-tuned the contents.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 43
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -12,869.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 52.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $453K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 4 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes foreign activity and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.