Aspire Living & Learning Inc
Overview
Mission
Aspire serves neurodiverse children and adults who are discovering their passions, unlocking potential, and thriving.
What it reported doing in 2024
Supports for Children - Behavioral Services: Aspire Living & Learning provides behavioral services for children aged 1 to 22 to reach their full potential. Whether at home, in a center-based setting, or in the community, children with an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, developmental disabilities and/or behavior challenges receive highly individualized clinical intervention, such as applied behavior analysis and other treatment modalities in the setting that best works for them to achieve their goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030284103
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- Montpelier, VT, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 90.7%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.61; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 90.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $83.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $345K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.