The Copyright Alliance Education Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943472364
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2012
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2012
Location
Washington, DC, USA
Phone
2025402243
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,447
Expenses
$6,663
Assets
$86,924

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization is a non-profit, non-partisan educational organization dedicated to developing and disseminating educational programs to k-12 teachers to help those educators meet requirements imposed by many states to teach media literacy, digital citizenship and copyright law to students.

What it reported doing in 2012

Disseminating information - the organization serves as a resource on information focused on copyright issues in the classroom and in young peoples daily lives. The organization disseminates information by (a)maintaining a web site that regularly updates its databases to include curriculum and educational guides, articles, current developments and other matters bearing on the organization's mission, (b)responding to individual requests and inquiries from educators and (c)utilizing various outreach and informational campaigns, including claasroom presentations, media interviews, social network outreach, and other means. The organization's website is the primary vehicle for disseminating information. The website not only makes the organization's curriculum, guides and materials available but also contains a compilation of free curricula that helps teachers of all grades and subject areas incorporate copyright into existing lesson plans.

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

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 53.6%; rating input score 54
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 46.5%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.05; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -102.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -75.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 71% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 53.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $7K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2012
  • 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 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.