Nebraska Christian Home Educators Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470705329
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lincoln, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4024234297
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,868
- Expenses
- $37,276
- Assets
- $30,993
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeff Bennett (Director and Vice President)
- Robin Gould (Director and President)
People named in this filing
- Jerome N Lenzen Jr (Director and Treasurer)
- Jeff Bennett (Director and Vice President)
- Robin Gould (Director and President)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate, inform, instruct, and train the public on the subject of education in general, home education specifically, and parental rights. To encourage public discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures and study groups for the presentation of educational materials. To sponsor state, regional and local seminars and public meetings, with the participation of speakers and panels from various other organizations for the purpose of general education and to provide local forums to alert the public, to present or purpose governmental actions, legislation, or policies. Also, to encourage and support Christian families in the education of their children at home in accordance with Biblical principles and to support rights of parents to direct the education of their children including the choice of home education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Annual Adult Conference and Curriculum Fair - C and CF is used to provide and promote the benefits of home education to the public - parents considering or investigating home education as alternative to other forms of education for their families, and encourage and supports families currently home educating. Attendance typically ranges from 200-500 families. Families can review and purchase curriculum, other educational material, hear nationally known and local speakers, attend workshops on topics to enhance their efforts in educating their children. It is a parent education/training experience. For families registered for the C&CF, the NCHEA conducts child and teen conferences concurrently with/during the C and CF, which facilitates parents being able to attend the C and CF. The children's conference is attended by100+ children, the teen conference by 35+ teens.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 88% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -79.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.