Schools First Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911693130
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063825552
- Rating
- 46
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,765
- Expenses
- $15,106
- Assets
- $111,589
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jake Ewart (President and Director)
People named in this filing
- Jake Ewart (President and Director)
- Sherry Carr (Secretary and Director)
- Peter Maier (Treasurer and Director)
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
Social Welfare - Public School Finance
What it reported doing in 2024
Planning and fundraising for promoting future levy electionsto support the Seattle Public Schools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 16
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.1%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 32%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 77.7%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.39; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -35% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.1% of revenue deployed · 32% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- 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 7/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.