Southern Arizona Education Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860670259
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5202784791
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,986
- Expenses
- $219,145
- Assets
- $117,855
- Liabilities
- $1,500
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROCQUE PEREZ (CEO & PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ROCQUE PEREZ (CEO & PRESIDENT): $46,634 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We empower a more educated and engaged community by democratizing access to learning, service, and opportunity for all. We empower learners to achieving personal and professional aspirations through a commitment to service and lifelong learning, and celebrate their supporters.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Tucson Teen Town Hall allows for young people to connect with local leaders and become informed and engaged citizens in the spirit of service. The Tucson Teen Congress develops young civic leaders through hands-on service, training, and connection with community leaders. The Teen Legislative Day affords students the opportunity to practice informed advocacy at the state capitol, utilizing the report from the Teen Town Hall. In partnership with Tucson Young Professionals, early career educators are afforded free membership benefits, such as mixers and mentor programs. The Peer Coach program recruits, trains, and deploys high school seniors to assist fellow students with college and career applications and transitions. Through workshops across the region, our network assists students and families in completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 71% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.7%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 49.9%; rating input score 50
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.5%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.7% of revenue deployed · 49.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $47K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.