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COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION NETWORK INC

EIN 82-1307652 FRANKLIN, TN

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Revenue 2024
$7,033,391
Expenses 2024
$7,232,719

Program services were 82.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B01
Classification
2000
Street
1417 HANSON DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO CATALYZE A COMPETENCY- AND SKILLS-FIRST SOCIETY FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS BY EQUIPPING THOSE WHO SERVE THEM WITH THE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO EXPAND EQUITABLE WORK-LEARN PATHWAYS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS TO CATALYZE A COMPETENCY- AND SKILLS-FIRST SOCIETY FOR ALL INDIVIDUALS BY EQUIPPING THOSE WHO SERVE THEM WITH THE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS AND RESOURCES NEEDED TO EXPAND EQUITABLE WORK-LEARN PATHWAY

  • SEE SCHEDULE O

    Expenses $5,957,613 · Grants $87,300 · Revenue $3,966,742

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Jennifer Graebe

    BAORD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Diane M Debacker

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Brooks Doherty

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jaime Fasteau

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Natalie Jones

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Charla S Long

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $442,000
    From this org
    $442,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $442,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $442,000
  • Kimo Kippen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ajita Talwalker Menon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jane Oates

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Joe Edelheit Ross

    BOARD TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Stacey Garrett Koju

    BOARD SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Amber Garrison Duncan

    VICE PRESIDENT AND COO

    Total calculated
    $314,477
    From this org
    $314,477
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $314,477
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $314,477
  • Lisa McIntyre-Hite

    VICE PRESIDENT AND COO

    Total calculated
    $365,910
    From this org
    $365,910
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $365,910
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $365,910
  • Laurie Dodge

    VP OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND ACCREDITATION

    Total calculated
    $221,333
    From this org
    $221,333
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $221,333
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $221,333
  • Grace Fowler

    SR. DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SUCCESS

    Total calculated
    $172,000
    From this org
    $172,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $172,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $172,000
  • Ryan Specht-Boardman

    DIRECTOR OF HIGHER EDUCATION SOLUTIONS

    Total calculated
    $193,370
    From this org
    $193,370
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $193,370
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $193,370

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,033,391
    Expenses
    $7,232,719
    Contributions
    $3,066,649
    Grants paid
    $87,300
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,137,790
    Expenses
    $5,999,458
    Contributions
    $2,422,973
    Grants paid
    $145,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,293,828
    Expenses
    $3,896,491
    Contributions
    $2,065,475
    Grants paid
    $6,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,924,304
    Expenses
    $2,778,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,286,812
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $908,922
    Expenses
    $1,093,247
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,058,455
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,088,888
    Expenses
    $1,383,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $924,453
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,124,241
    Expenses
    $1,348,731
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,228,210
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $557,484
    Expenses
    $731,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,434,042

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - COMMERCE

    $70,000

    2023 CBE PROGRAM IMPLEMEN

  • STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY

    $37,000

    2023 CBE PROGRAM IMPLEMEN

  • LUMINA

    $24,000

    2024 LUMINA FOUNDATION AND MATH PATHWAYS GRANT

  • 2024 GTF GRANT - MILESTONE 3

  • TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - CORPUS CHRIS

    $20,000

    2023 CBE PROGRAM IMPLEME

  • STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY

    $18,500

    2024 COLLABRATORY PROJECT FOR HOSPITALITY ADMINISTRATION

  • TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY - TEXARKANA

    $18,000

    2023 CBE PROGRAM IMPLEMEN

  • 2024 SCHOLARSHIP - 2025 STUDENTS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.