Road2 Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853892264
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Irvine, CA, USA
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1
- Expenses
- $169
- Assets
- $23,146
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Uttam Shah (President)
People named in this filing
- Uttam Shah (President)
- James Reed (Treasurer)
- Ajay Shah (Secretary)
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
Road2's primary mission is to provide free education to all students from K-12 & colleges through various online and local events. Road2 will collaborate with several educational organizations to provide content through Road2's website as well as create its own content.
What it reported doing in 2025
Road2 reached out to various professionals to share their career stories on Road2, about how they started their career, what education they pursued, and how it was helpful throughout their endeavors. These stories should help the students understand different career choices available to them in real world and various pathways they can follow to achieve those dreams.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16,800%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 136.96; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.2% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 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
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.