Practical Education Network Africa-USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 934483728
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Somerville, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5087188126
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,581
- Expenses
- $3,065
- Assets
- $35,516
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HEATHER BEEM (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- WILFRED MBAH (CHAIRMAN)
- HEATHER BEEM (PRESIDENT)
- ELIZABETH HUSSEY (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
To mobilize resources for charitable and educational purposes including, but not limited to, promoting partnerships to equip teachers in africa with low-cost, hands-on approaches to teaching science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, to drive sustainable development in africa.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the organization started building the foundation upon which they could provide services in line with its mission. The organization began the necessary steps to organize, coordinate, and fund the training of kindergarten through grade 12 science and math teacher in west africa to use low-cost, hands-on approaches to teach more effectively in their classrooms. This includes training both in-service and pre-service teachers. Also, this includes printing and distribution of teacher resource manuals which contain low-cost activity guides aligned to their national curriculum. Students across the region are expected to benefit in terms of increased interest in "stem" fields and improved learning outcomes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 92.1%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 11.59; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.