The Ascension Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721186479
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Gonzales, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2252903322
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Public Foundations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CRAIG WALLING (President)
- BRET HUGHES (PAST PRESIDENT)
- LD BUDDY WELLS (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL BUTURLA (BOARD MEMBER)
- SALLY DIEZ (BOARD MEMBER)
- DONALD SONGY (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To be an instrument for private sector leaders to reward and inspire excellence in public education, by investing directly in the work of individual teachers and schools through grants for innovative ideas and programs in ascension parish public schools.
What it reported doing in 2024
The ascension fund provides grants and other assistance to public schools in ascension parish, Louisiana in order to enhance education in public schools.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -17.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 21 people listed
- Consistency: 1 of 2 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.