World Class Grads - Maryland Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871118272
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Annapolis, MD, USA
Phone
0000000000
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$108,674
Expenses
$53,405
Assets
$113,160
Liabilities
$24,604

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Thornell Jones (President)
  • Richard Van Dyke (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Thornell Jones (President)
  • Richard Van Dyke (Vice President)
  • Heather Millar (Secreatary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

World Class Grads reviews The Maryland Blueprint for Educational Improvements and transformation of the educational system and upgrade the students skills in reading and math and teacher skills World Class Grads looks at the best educational practices and collects information to share with the different school systems and local organizations supporting reading improvements and math practices WCG attends to share the concepts with teaches and the parents

What it reported doing in 2025

World Class Grads received a Arundel county Church and City of Annapolis grants to start a Youth boating educational program to include on the water training team interspersal skills maritime careers the grant included encouraging other non profits to participate in the youth programs

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 93% 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 76
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.1%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 50.9%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 86.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 87.3% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 96.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $53K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.