News in Education Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
134194423
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2010
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2010
Location
New York, NY, USA
Phone
2125565807
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Assets
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2010. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Education & literacy

What it reported doing in 2010

The purpose of the foundation was to further the goals of education and literacy, largely through encouraging the use of newspapers as teaching tools in the classroom. Funds raised were used principally to conduct newspapers in education programs. The programs provided newspapers and curriculum guides to schools for use in grades 4-12 and at the college level. The foundation conducted seminars to instruct teachers in the use of newspapers as a tool to improve classroom learning in such areas as writing, vocabulary, reading comprehension, social studies, science, math, current events, health, and other topics. The organization distributed all of its assets in 2010 pursuant to a plan of dissolution. It received its final approval of the certificate of dissolution from the New York state attorney general's office on june 9,2011. Accordingly, this is the final form 990 for this organization. Copies of the final dissolution documents are attached hereto.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: NotEnoughData
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 1 filing year from 2010
  • 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.