Noggin Educational Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475193384
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Arlington, TX, USA
- Phone
- 6827773222
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,861
- Expenses
- $211,348
- Assets
- $40,188
- Liabilities
- $9,073
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Doneda Bailey (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Doneda Bailey (President): $57,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to help close the achievement gap for economically disadvantaged children by improving educational opportunities for students, supporting families, and encouraging excellence and innovation in the classroom.
What it reported doing in 2025
One-on-One Tutoring: Noggin provided free, certified-teacher-led one-on-one tutoring to economically disadvantaged K-12 students. Sessions were conducted in students' homes or approved locations by Texas-certified teachers. The program addresses learning gaps in math and English Language Arts and incorporates individualized learning plans, IXL diagnostic assessments, and MAP standardized test tracking. FY2025 Results: 45 students served 810 private tutoring hours delivered Most students maintained or improved grade-level performance across assessment periods Reading fluency students gained an average of 1.6 reading levels 97.14% of parents affirmed their child made significant progress toward tutoring goals (parent feedback survey) 63.77% of students experienced increased confidence in the school environment
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 52.1%; rating input score 52
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
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: 80%; rating input score 80; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -22.3%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 67.1% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 52.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $110K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.