New Brunswick Education Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 270135736
IRS 990 coverage: 2010–2025
Forms available: Form 990 2025
Location: New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Phone: 7322414741
Rating: 76
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Single Organization Support
Affiliation: Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $261,325
Expenses: $259,118
Assets: $125,189
Liabilities: $0

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Highest reported compensation

EMMANUEL FORD (EXECUTIVE DI): $60,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The new brunswick education foundation (nbef) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that is designed to help inspire, equip, and empower new brunswick public school students to succeed. Nbef partners with individuals, businesses, and organizations to provide innovative and cutting-edge initiatives for students that are generally not covered by the school budget. Mission "to seek and procure monetary contributions, charitable gifts, and in-kind services to help increase educational opportunities, innovative programs, scholarships, and other resources to benefit new brunswick youth. Goals to foster collaborations with educators, parents, alumni, local businesses, corporations, churches, community organizations, and others to benefit students; to complement the new brunswick public school districts curriculum, programs, projects and activities; to provide mini-grants for teachers to implement creative and innovative learning experiences for students; to develop an alumni networ

What it reported doing in 2025

Nbefs college & young professional network (c&ypn) is an ongoing support system for new brunswick high school and new brunswick health sciences technology high school graduates attending colleges, universities and vocational institutes. This trailblazing initiative provides them with college readiness and career development coaching, mentoring, training and special events including career clusters in engineering and computer science, business and communications, psychology and social work, and pre- med and nursing. Nbef also offers a pathways to law school program, public speakers institute, and mental health platform. We started the nbef c&ypn in 2011 with 11 students and has grown to over 800 participants. Nbef begins cultivating and nurturing students during their junior and senior year in high school, setting the stage for their transition into college and beyond. Once they are enrolled in college, nbefs c&ypn becomes a link to their future, building their professional portfolio via career development programs, coaching/mentoring, job shadowing, and internship opportunities. A primary aim of the network is to help ensure that our youth remain focused on completing their college education while at the same time planning for a future career. The college and young professional network enables nbef to stay connected with scholarship recipients and track their progress (along with numerous other nbhs and nbhsths graduates pursuing higher education), while providing them with programs and resources that are designed to equip them to compete in our global society. Nbef launched their first prep for success virtual platform in january 2021. It was a major conference style platform with over 300 youth and young adults participating. The platform showcased dynamic workshops, panel discussions, fireside chats and motivational speakers. Additionally, there are two major annual activities summer enrichment and holiday "prep for success" events. These conference style gatherings held in august and late december include networking activities, motivational speakers, and workshops covering key areas such as career exploration, resume and cover letter writing, time/stress management, mock interview skills, elevator pitch, dress for success and dining etiquette tips, college/workplace diversity & inclusion, etc. Attendance has more than tripled in recent years, now attracting over 100 new brunswick youth at each event. Nbef also host a mental health platform with licensed mental health professionals and empowerment speakers that provide resources on stress management, self-care and wellness. Additionally, there is an economic empowerment platform with workshops that focus on such areas as home ownership, financial management, and entrepreneurship.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 68
Transparency & Controls: 92
Accountability: 74
Sustainability: 36
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $200K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $60K · 12 people listed
Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
Filing history: 16 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.

Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.