National Tutoring Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352196495
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Lakeland, FL, USA
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$119,983
Expenses
$70,241
Assets
$122,188
Liabilities
$13,260

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dr Lucy Lapekas (Executive Director)
  • Dr Carmen Wade (President Emeritus)
  • Dr Isaac Cross (President)
  • Jacob Kartiganer (President Elect)
  • Jalon Martin (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Dr Brandy Daingerfield (Asst Exec Dir and Military Liaison)
  • Dr Lucy Lapekas (Executive Director)
  • Dr Carmen Wade (President Emeritus)

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 NTA mission is to foster the advancement of professional and peer tutoring academic coaching and mentoring support research into best practices and standards support tutor academic coach and mentor training for certification and uphold the NTA Code of Ethics,

What it reported doing in 2025

Online Certification Training through recorded webinars serve over 6000 tutors academic coaches and mentors who would not otherwise have the ability to access professional development and receive professional certification due to travel expense related to attending regional trainings.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 72% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 74
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 41.5%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.74; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 38.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $119K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.