Wylie Bulldogs Education Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800594530
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Abilene, TX, USA
- Phone
- 3256924353
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $310,056
- Expenses
- $147,458
- Assets
- $1,956,059
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Becky Rentz (Vice President - Development)
- Denise Blake (President)
- Johanna Weltzin (Vice President - Operations)
People named in this filing
- Becky Rentz (Vice President - Development)
- Denise Blake (President)
- Samantha Miers (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Wylie Bulldogs Education Foundation has a mission of collecting and distributing gifts to promote excellence in education.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Foundation awarded 22 Teacher Grants in 2024 totalling $23627. These grant awards will be disbursed in 2025. Balance of $59,883 funded in 2024 was for prior years' grants. All full time teachers in Wylie ISD are eligible and encouraged to apply. A committee of 7 community and Board members evaluate the candidates' request based on the potential to involve a great number of students and consistency with Wylie ISD's goal of increasing student achievement. The Major Objectives of the request are evaluated for definable and obtainable objectives and responsiveness to a stated need. The Activities/Implementation Plan is evaluated to assure that the project's methods are research based and are instructionally sound. Methods for Evaluation of the completed project are required.The teacher grant checks are mailed directly to Wylie ISD's accountant for the benefit of the awarded teachers. The teachers purchase items approved in the grant and present receipts for reimbursement to Wylie ISD.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 59
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43.3%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 52.4%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.27; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 43.3% of revenue deployed · 63.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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 43/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.