Simiode
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813381857
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Chardon, OH, USA
- Phone
- 8455687119
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,245
- Expenses
- $56,104
- Assets
- $13,846
- Liabilities
- $178,159
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- BRIAN J WINKEL (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
Simiode is a scientific education association. The purpose of simiode is to foster the teaching of differential equatinos, an undergraduate mathematics course, in a manner that uses modeling and technology throughout the learning process. Simiode offers a web-based community for teachers and learners at www.simiode.org in support of that purpose. The community offers resrouces, reviews, teaching materials, collaborative spaces for creating teaching materials, and a professinoal, peer review system for publication of teaching materials. In addition to the web community, simiode conducts minicourses at national and regional mathematics organization meetings, runs workships for teachers to enable them to learn about the modeling-first approach for teaching differential equations, and leads paper sessions at mathematical society meetings. Further, members of the community also present contributed papers at meetings and publish scholarly papers in the broader professional literature, beyond
What it reported doing in 2024
Achievements for the year: (1) created, edited, and published material at www.simiode.org in support of teaching differential equations using modeling. (2) ran minicourses and sponsored contributed paper sessions at national metings of the american mathematics society and the mathematical association of america. (3) published several articles in journals and maganizes related to our mission at simiode. (4) maintained an active social media campaign in twitter, facebook, and youtube in support of the simiode community. (5)sought out funding from foudnations and corporations and are actively pursuing an invitation to submit a proposal for 25,000 support from motorola solutions foundation.
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 87% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 12.87; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $56K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.