Trenton Public Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562463017
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Trenton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6096564900
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $26,115
- Expenses
- $28,413
- Assets
- $88,612
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
People named in this filing
- ELLEN MUSHINSKI (Executive Dir.)
- FRANK PETRINO (Chairman)
- MICHELLE PEAL (VICE CHAIR)
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
Provide support and assistance to the students and teachers of the trenton school district
What it reported doing in 2024
Support and assistance to the students and teachers of the trenton pubic school district
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
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 87
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.12; rating input score 75; 75th 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: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.2% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.