Peer-led Team Learning International Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460557348
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,874
- Expenses
- $17,787
- Assets
- $13,621
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kimshi Hickman (President to Apr 2024)
- AE Dreyfuss (Director and Past President)
- Milka Montes (Director and Past President)
- James E Becvar (Director Bookkeeper and Past President)
- Anthony Michael (President after April 2024)
People named in this filing
- Kimshi Hickman (President to Apr 2024)
- Mitsue Nakamura (Treasurer)
- Catherine Unite (Secretary)
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
To support education via the practice of Peer-Led Team Learning.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hosted Website published on-line journal Advances in Peer-Led Learning to support practitioners of PLTL. Benefitted more than one million people based on recorded visits to the website.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 57% for direct work, and 43% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.5%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.5% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.