West Chester Area Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273898980
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Exton, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4842661018
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $89,464
- Expenses
- $80,230
- Assets
- $91,243
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Deb Maccariella (PRESIDENT)
- Maria Stetter (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Deb Maccariella (PRESIDENT)
- Maria Stetter (Vice President)
- Linda Cherashore (Secretary)
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 support educational experiences that will connect the west chester area school district curriculum with real world experience.
What it reported doing in 2024
District mini-grants - funding for various programs that benefit 25-500 students. Grants provided for student projects related to the foundation mission and supervised by teachers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.3%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 51.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $78K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.