New Palestine Education Foundation
Legal name: Southern Hancock Education Fdn Dba New Palestine Education Fdn
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273670205
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- New Palestine, IN, USA
- Phone
- 6176948086
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,525
- Expenses
- $57,501
- Assets
- $131,040
- Liabilities
- $2,167
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LINDA FOWLER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LINDA FOWLER (PRESIDENT)
- KAITLYN ARTHUR (VICE PRESIDE)
- JENNIFER DROPSEY (TREASURER)
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
The New Palestine Education Foundation’s mission is to promote and support quality public education within the New Palestine community. A small group of community members partnered with several educators to create a foundation to support the schools in the Community School Corporation of Southern Hancock County, since renamed the New Palestine Community Schools. Our mission is to promote and support quality public education within the New Palestine community. The Foundation’s name was updated to its current name in 2021 to better reflect its work in the New Palestine community. |.
What it reported doing in 2024
We were able to provide grants to teachers, administrators and staff within the school district. These grants covered a variety of things from classroom supplies, educational materials, literature, flexible seating, technology and much more. These grants were able to directly impact the students of the cscshc district.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 42% for direct work, and 58% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58%; rating input score 58
- 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: 42.2%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.28; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 90.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 44.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 58% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.