Public Education Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
042679788
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Boston, MA, USA
Phone
8772239390
Rating
39
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$75,944
Expenses
$87,834
Assets
$41,478
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ellyn Ruthstrom (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Ellyn Ruthstrom (Executive Director)
  • Meg Duberek (Board member)
  • Luree Nikias (Board Co-chair and 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

SpeakOUT's primary exempt purpose is to provide LGBTQ education to members of the New England community

What it reported doing in 2025

Conducted speaking engagements for LGBTQIA education. Provided speakers for engagements including church, youth, college, curriculum, high school health classes, services agencies, and corporate teach-ins.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

REVIEW - 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: 6
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 5.7%; rating input score 6
  • Program expense ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 5

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -15.7%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 5.7% of revenue deployed · 4.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 6/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.