Parent Engagement Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270710394
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2010, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Broomfield, CO, USA
- Phone
- 6087701342
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,951
- Expenses
- $112,031
- Assets
- $80,015
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STACY CORNAY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PAULA NELSON (PROGRAM DIRECTOR)
- SANDY HAY (ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR)
- KATHY VALENTINE (BOARD CHAIR)
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
Pen's mission is to support parents in raising healthy, happy humans. Pen takes the fear, shame, blame and loneliness out of parenting by surrounding them with a community of experts, other parents, and quality information & resources so that they never feel alone throughout their parenting journey. Pen programs focus on 4 key initiatives: (1) building resilient families, (2) reducing stress & anxiety, (3) preventing youth substance use & abuse, and (4) raising kids in a digital age and are delivered through presentations, workshops, pen's parenting well podcast, and our annual reducing stress & anxiety conference.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pen pal program: parents as leaders in schools program.parents in bvsd schools are invited to enroll in this program. They attend monthly coaching sessions that include sharing, coaching and guidance about pen programs, and guest speakers to learn more about topics that interest them. These leader share pen programs with the parents in their respective schools and can bring programming directly to their school. This year pen pals also hosted 10 parenting book groups.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 34
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.3%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 42.6%; rating input score 43
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29.3% of revenue deployed · 42.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.