Massachusetts · Nonprofit
EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC
EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200,600 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $109k
What Education Quality Outcomes Standards Inc does
Mission
Despite there being more than a million credentials to choose from in the u.s., there is little guidance on which ones offer the greatest return on investment for workers and employers. Our mission is to bring clarity to the ndc landscape by creating a first-of-its-kind, universal signal of quality that does not rely on data collected by providers, but instead uses real workers' outcomes before and after they attain ndcs. By providing comprehensive data on ndc quality and deploying tangible tools to activate this information, we can empower millions of u.s. Workers to translate skills into better jobs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We help post secondary providers collect and report realworld outcomes data in order to establish consistent quality assurance standards across education and training programs. Eqos has developed a robust quality assurance framework and approach for education and training providers. Today, the framework is being piloted in colorado, indiana, and new jersey. In addition to creating and defining the metrics for our five outcomes standard categories, we assist individual education providers in understanding the framework and provide technical assistance in the actual collection and reporting of the outcomes data. We also assist state governments and policymakers in understanding the results and using the framework to incentivize the identification and scaling of education programs that have measurable realworld successes in training or retraining vulnerable populations.
$35,154 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,154.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $678k to $336k (−50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Michael Horn
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $242k → $75k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 88% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $242k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Jobs for the Future Inc · exempt
- Jfflabs Inc · exempt
- Jff Ventures II Gp LLC · partnership
- Jff Ventures LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC?
- EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200,600 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($250,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,200,600 in grants to EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION QUALITY OUTCOMES STANDARDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing