National High School Career Day Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
934207262
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
Phone
3106124971
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$67,640
Expenses
$33,503
Assets
$62,795
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEPHEN RAPPAPORT (CEO & CHAIRMAN)
  • KAREN PAYSINGER (Vice President)
  • AMY GOLDEN MALONE (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • STEPHEN RAPPAPORT (CEO & CHAIRMAN)
  • CARTER PAYSINGER (DIRECTOR & PRES)
  • VICKIE Z BECKWITH RN MSN (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization assists high schools in developing and conducting student-centered career day events and provides resources to inspire students to find their passion, pursue further education, and set a direction for their career path.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization coordinated three career day events for the centinela valley union high school district. The first event was held on february 20, 2025, at hawthorne high school. The second event was held on march 13, 2025, at leuzinger high school, and the third event was held on april 16, 2025, at lawndale high school. The activities included coordinating the overall events, assisting in the development of the student career interest survey, building the master schedule for the students, recruiting industry professionals, scheduling the industry professionals, designing and printing the career event programs for the speakers and guests, printing and providing faqs, suggested speaker topics, and check-in instructions for distribution to breakout speakers, coordinating the registration process for the breakout speakers and guest on the day of the event, producing a highlight video of the event for each school, and a separate highlight video of all the events for the school district. Nhscdn needed to hire 3rd party vendors to produce the highlight videos and build the student master schedules. Nhscdn started working with each school in august 2024, culminating with the event day. The entire student body participated at each school. 1,635 students participated at hawthorne high school, 1,948 students participated at leuzinger high school, and 1,381 students participated at lawndale high school.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 35
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 53
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 28.4%; rating input score 28
  • Program expense ratio: 57.4%; rating input score 57
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 60%; rating input score 60; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 50.5%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 46.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 28.4% of revenue deployed · 57.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.