LESD Educational Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860456123
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Litchfield Park, AZ, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,984
- Expenses
- $92,162
- Assets
- $411,647
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paul Bentz (President)
People named in this filing
- Paul Bentz (President)
- Denise Kowanetz (Treasurer)
- Shea Mahoney (Director)
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 Litchfield Elementary School District Educational Foundation exists to meet the educational, social and economic needs of current and former students of the Litchfield Elementary School District. The Foundation also provides employee recognition for teachers and staff of the Litchfield Elementary School District.
What it reported doing in 2025
Student Support - The Foundation provided funding to support an educational enrichment experience for approximately 500 eighth-grade students from schools within the district. The initiative included a day trip to Disneyland, offering students an opportunity for social development, cultural exposure, and celebration of their academic achievements. The Foundation also provided scholarships to graduating high school seniors who were alumni of the Litchfield Elementary School District in an effort to continue their lifelong learning journey. The cost of this program amounted to $29,000
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.47; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 86.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 170.9% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.