School Choice Ohio Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 203130699
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6142231555
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $950,994
- Expenses
- $861,972
- Assets
- $1,227,743
- Liabilities
- $156,183
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC FRANK (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC FRANK (PRESIDENT): $270,000 total reported compensation
- ANN RIDDLE (SECRETARY): $111,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of school choice Ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
What it reported doing in 2024
School choice Ohio carries out its mission by focusing its efforts on informing Ohio families about the state's school options, including Ohio's five publicly funded scholarship programs (ed choice, income-based, cleveland scholarship and tutoring, autism, and jon peterson special needs). School choice Ohio also works with organizations throughout the state, dedicated to parental choice and educational excellence, to raise awareness about school choice by educating the public and state leaders. School choice Ohio advocates for the expansion of quality options so that one day, every Ohio child will have an opportunity to attend a great school that is a great fit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $271.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $615K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $270K · 4 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $382K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.