Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883626139
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
West Chester, PA, USA
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,195,558
Expenses
$665,014
Assets
$551,658
Liabilities
$21,114

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Karen Parker-Thompson (Executive Director)
  • Donna-Marie Cole (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Karen Parker-Thompson (Executive Director): $25,500 total reported compensation
  • Donna-Marie Cole (Executive Director): $14,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

PEDC seeks to eliminate the demographic mismatch between educators and learners of color. Using a collective impact strategy, we convene and collaborate with invested partners around shared goals and systems of accountability, engage in advocacy work, and increase the number of ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse, culturally relevant, and sustaining educators and education systems in Pennsylvania.

What it reported doing in 2024

Beginning in 2024, the Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium (PEDC) continued to expand its statewide impact through strategic collaboration, advocacy, and the development of transformative resources that advance educator diversity and culturally relevant, sustaining education (CRSE) across Pennsylvania. PEDC's statewide meetings-held monthly alongside regional convenings-have become vital spaces for connection, learning, and action among educators, leaders, policymakers, and community partners. These gatherings provided structure and momentum for advancing equity-driven policies, including Advocacy Day at the Capitol, which brought together over 100 educators, students, and advocates to call for full funding of the $10,000 Student Teacher Stipend Program and continued investment in teacher recruitment and retention. PEDC also hosted timely statewide sessions on mental health and educator wellness, federal education policy, and advancing CRSE in a politically challenging climate, ensuring that Pennsylvania's education community remained both informed and inspired. At the heart of PEDC's work is a deep commitment to resource creation and knowledge sharing. This year's accomplishments include the publication of Transformative Teacher Education: Disrupting Pedagogy, Practice, and Ideology to Forge Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education, co-edited by PEDC Co-Executive Director Dr. Donna-Marie Cole-Malott. PEDC also developed a suite of CRSE Toolkits focused on parents, community mentors, recruitment, retention, and mentoring; a new CRSE Guide for Educators and Leaders, Navigating Challenging Waters; and additional resources on immigration, educator diversity policy, and community engagement. Collectively, these materials have become critical tools for educators, leaders, and policymakers working toward more equitable systems. PEDC's annual Educator Diversity Summit, The Power of Solidarity: Diversifying the Educator Workforce, Together!, drew more than 200 participants from across the education ecosystem and highlighted the interconnectedness of wellness, solidarity, and systemic change. PEDC also enhanced its digital infrastructure, redesigning its website to improve accessibility and engagement, making its resources and programming more readily available to educators statewide. Through its statewide and regional meetings, public programming, and community-driven initiatives, PEDC continues to offer a space for reflection, dialogue, and collective action-where educators and allies can be in community with others who share a commitment to transforming education in Pennsylvania. Together, these accomplishments underscore PEDC's role as a statewide catalyst for change, building collective power, nurturing belonging, and creating the conditions for a more just, inclusive, and culturally sustaining education system.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 35.4%; rating input score 35
  • Program expense ratio: 63.5%; rating input score 63
  • Fundraising efficiency: $30.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 44.4%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

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

Details

  • Where the money goes: 35.4% of revenue deployed · 63.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $422K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $26K · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 22 of 24 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 35/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.