Aardvark Child Care & Learning Ctr
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232532960
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Glen Mills, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6108916604
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $884,250
- Expenses
- $896,471
- Assets
- $719,606
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANNE DRINKARD (PRESIDENT)
- AMANDA TRANI (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOANNE DRINKARD (PRESIDENT): $142,288 total reported compensation
- JANET FRAZIER (DIRECTOR): $52,050 total reported compensation
- AMANDA TRANI (VICE PRESIDENT): $39,354 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide affordable child carecoupled with a learning environment that promotes social growth andenrichment for the positive development of young minds.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provision of daycare services to children ages 6 weeks to 10 years from low income families; single parent families; and all other familial situations. The facility also provides a nurturing learning environment geared towards enrichment and social growth.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.2% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $850K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.