Rural Education Advancement and Development
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454887466
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lk Junaluska, NC, USA
- Phone
- 0000000000
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,296
- Expenses
- $110,924
- Assets
- $21,289
- 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
- Virginia McNair (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Virginia McNair (Executive Director)
- Carla Billups (Board Chair)
- Jason miller (Board member)
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
Our mission is to improve the educational economic and health opportunities for subsistance farmers living in rural Ecuador We provide sponsorhip to children and youth The money is spent primarily on education secondly on health and thirdly on housing needs We also have a work study program Students work and are paid hourly again the funds to go to education The poultry project has helped family increase their flock of chickens to improve nutrition and the economic situation of the family We assist schools with equipment such as projectors computers imfrastructure repair etc All of our staff are local Their salaries and benefits are paid in Ecuador
What it reported doing in 2025
We have helped 19 families start or improve the raising of chickens on their property All families are enrolled in sponsorship
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0.1%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0.1%; rating input score 0
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: -8.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -99.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0.1% of revenue deployed · 0.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.