Brent Elementary School
Legal name: Robert Brent Parent Teachers Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161713470
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2009
- Location
- Washington, DC, United States
- Phone
- (202) 698-3363
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $408,982
- Expenses
- $458,909
- Assets
- $487,792
- Liabilities
- $1,309
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RACHEL BALL (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CORTAVIA FREEMAN (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SHAYERAH AKHTAR (CO-SECRETARY)
- RACHEL BALL (CO-PRESIDENT)
- JOHAN BERGENAS (CO-COMMUNITY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide comprehensive student, staff, curriculum and infrastructure support to enhance the student learning experience at Robert Brent Elementary School, a DC public school on Capitol Hill. 5. We will provide broad and inclusive opportunities for collective planning, transparent communication, and continued adult growth. These operating principles will act as our school goals, assigning our destination while allowing flexible and response routes for getting there. We are and we are becoming. Health, Wellness, and Physical Activity at Brent Elementary. We only provide meaningful updates and will not send you spam! Shaping young minds into the leaders of tomorrow by focusing on Bravery, Empathy, Activity, and Responsibility.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide proactive support to enhance the curriculum and learning environment at brent elementary. This support includes enhanced arts, enhanced music, enhanced science, enhanced technology, teacher professional development and general curriculum support. This support also includes purchasing of general school and classroom supplies, supplementing assistance from the dc public school system and providing funds for teacher assistance and teacher appreciation.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -12.2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $351K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.