Phone-free Schools Movement Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934875253
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Valley Forge, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4128608375
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,000
- Expenses
- $30,661
- Assets
- $38,339
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kim Whitman (Co-Founder)
- Sabine Polak (Co-Founder)
- Mileva Repasky (Co-Founder)
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
In less than two years, PFSM has become the leading voice in the national phone-free schools conversation. Weve developed flagship toolkits, grown a network of 200+ ambassadors across dozens of states, and established partnerships at the school, district, and legislative levels. 20232024 Impact Highlights: Toolkits: Administrator & Ambassador Toolkits used in schools nationwide. National Visibility: Featured by CNN, Associated Press, and key education podcasts. Ambassador Network: 200+ advocates trained and active across the U.S. Research Partnership: Launched with UNC Chapel Hill to study the impact of phone-free policiesan anticipated body of research poised to shape policy conversations nationally. Youth Engagement: PSA contest, student testimonials, and storytelling around impact. Policy Influence: Advising policy leaders and testifying in legislative hearings.
What it reported doing in 2024
Development of Administrator toolkit and Ambassador toolkit
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 15
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.3%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 23.2%; rating input score 23
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 55.6%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.3% of revenue deployed · 23.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.