Mile High Education Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815059265
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $140,000
- Expenses
- $140,000
- Assets
- $699
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nate Braden (Executive Director)
- Ty King (President)
People named in this filing
- Nate Braden (Executive Director)
- Ty King (President)
- Tom Hughes (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mile High Education Services provides reading writing and math instruction to at-risk students. Our signature service is our ASVAB Prep Program which helps young people who want to join the military to pass the entrance exam the ASVAB. In 2025 we helped 30 candidates pass this test and enlist in the Armed Forces. Their average score increase was 80% after just 15 hours of intervention.
What it reported doing in 2025
ASVAB Prep Program
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.