Partners in Promise
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852828270
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7576414487
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Military, Veterans' Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $167,098
- Expenses
- $112,209
- Assets
- $209,145
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michelle Norman (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Michelle Norman (Executive Director)
- Grace Kim (Chairman of the Board)
- Brad Tsai (Treasurer)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Partners in PROMISEs mission is to protect the rights of military children in special education and disability communities to ensure they receive equal access to an education. We develop data-informed solutions that equip parents, inform leaders and enable military students to thrive. We promote the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion by advocating for the future for our military children with unique and diverse backgrounds and needs.
What it reported doing in 2025
EDUCATION/OUTREACH: Utilizing our statistically significant bi-annual survey findings, we are able to identify/gaps of knowledge and educate military families in special education and those enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program. We provide military special education families with tangible special education assistance througha combination of resources to include our SPED mentors, website, virtual webinars, in person events and trainings, publications, podcasts, blogs, special needs binders and op-eds.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.9%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
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: 32.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.86; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 53.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 35.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.9% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.