Ames Waldorf Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421459308
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Ames, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152924312
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $151,923
- Expenses
- $173,714
- Assets
- $52,497
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debra Kumar (President / Treasurer)
People named in this filing
- Debra Kumar (President / Treasurer)
- Tamsyn Jones (Secretary)
- Karuna Sajeevan (Treasurer (former))
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide early childhood education. Our mission is to provide learning experiences that strengthen connections to community & the natural world while nurturing the innate capacities for imagination & wonder and instilling a sense of unconditional belonging.
What it reported doing in 2024
Preschool program - morning-only and full-day. Held year-round, Monday-Friday. Served a total of 40 children. Children spend as much of the day as possible outdoors, forming a connection with nature and learning through play. Our emergent curriculum is largely child-led and holistically seeks to meet the needs of the whole child.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $174K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.