Reaching Heights
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341604071
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Cleveland Heights, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2169325110
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $172,694
- Expenses
- $261,991
- Assets
- $338,242
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSIE MOORE (PRESIDENT)
- ERICA C PENICK (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JOSIE MOORE (PRESIDENT)
- MAZIE ADAMS (INTERIM VICE PRES)
- ADAORA SCHMIEDL (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Reaching heights advances educational equity and student success in the cleveland heights-university heights community through a portfolio of programs that support students, families, and schools.
What it reported doing in 2024
During fy 2024-2025 the parent mentor project provided individualzed guidance and advocacy support to approximately 640 families, helping parents and caregivers navigate special education services, understand their rights, prepare for iep and 504 meetings, and access critical educational resources. Family engagement increased by 25% over the previous year. Many villages, reaching heights' flagship volunteer tutoring and practice-partnering program, continued to provide one-on-one academic support to students throughout the district. In 2024-2025 school year, the program expanded through a partnership with heights libraries, launching an after-school site at noble neighborhood library. The program served 235 students, engaged 17 new volunteers, and generated more than 1400 volunteer service hours. The reaching heights summer music camp remained a highly valued enrichment opportunity for students enrolled in the ch-uh instrumental music program. The week-long immersive camp provided intensive music instruction and culminated in a publilc performance attended by over 150 guests and family members. 100 students, an all-time high, participated during june 2025. Reaching heights launched the role models economic mobility program, an innovative initiative connecting high school students with local employers through paid work experiences, mentorship, and financial literacy education. Developed in partnership with 9 local businesses and community organizations, the program provided 12 students with meaningful exposure to career pathways, workplace skills, and economic opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.7%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 11%; rating input score 11
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -51.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 16%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.7% of revenue deployed · 11% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.