Center for Social-Emotional Learning
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Teaching social emotional -- problem-solving -- and peer mediation skills to students and other youth in the Greater Cincinnati area
- Income
- $100,896
- Spending
- $101,610
- Reserves
- 11 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 82%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $66,125 spent. Taught Social-Emotional Learning concepts to 49 kindergarten through twelfth grade classes for a total of 854 students and 53 teachers staff. Students were predominantly minority and from low SES families. Students and teachers rated the CSEL program as 85-100% effective on surveys.
- $23,005 spent. Part and Line Number: Part III - Line 29 Taught Social-Emotional Learning concepts for 7 eighth grade classes in 17 sessions to a total of 150 students and 2 teachers; and 5 sixth grade classes in 15 sessions to a total of 110 students and 4 teachers staff. Students were predominantly minority and from low-middle SES class families. Students and teachers rated the CSEL program as 78-100% effective on surveys
- Planned and conducted peer mediation training for a group of 5th through 8th graders and a group of 6th graders totaling 52 students and 15 teachers staff. Also developed and installed Mediation Request Forms in folders for 110 classrooms and hallways in a middle school. Students were predominantly minority and from low-middle SES families. Students and teachers rated the CSEL program as 99 - 100% effective.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since February 2015.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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