Unleashing the Power of Partnership for Learning Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472894356
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Waterbury, VT, USA
Phone
8025528140
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$894,041
Expenses
$904,922
Assets
$85,775
Liabilities
$90,825

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LINDSEY HALMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • LINDSEY HALMAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $117,843 total reported compensation
  • AUISHMA PRADHAM (DIRECTOR): $2,845 total reported compensation
  • ISIS BANDELE-ASANTE (DIRECTOR): $2,817 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Up for learning supports educational communities' work toward systemic transformation, engaging all learners, and increasing the authentic voice of youth in learning and decision-making. We believe all young people have the right to a meaningful and engaging education. In each of our seven primary programs and customized community projects, we utilize research-based models that transform the student-teacher relationship to one of shared ownership and shared responsibility. Up offers facilitation, strategies, tools and ongoing coaching to ensure all young people have opportunities, support, knowledge and skills to pursue active roles in their learning, their lives and their community. Served schools in 12 of 14 counties in Vermont, plus schools in ma, nh, de, ms, cherokee nation. In fy 25, up trained 75 teams including 1621 youth and 328 adults in 118 different schools.

What it reported doing in 2024

Getting to 'y' is a nationally designated "best practice" program for youth to take a lead in bringing meaning to their own youth risk behavior survey data.youth and adults transforming schools together fosters engagement in learning by increasing rigor, relevance, relationships, and shared responsibility. With this framework, student and teacher teams use data to understand issues that impact learning from multiple perspectives and then become agents of change.cultivating pathways to sustainability connects the promising efforts of Vermont's act 77 - personalized learning and flexible pathways to graduation. Guided by the united nations sustainable development goals, youth-adult teams link what is going on inside their schools to larger efforts underway, toward making a positive difference in their community and world.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.06; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -9.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $705K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.