Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237323306
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lewiston, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077954040
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,415,629
- Expenses
- $6,376,982
- Assets
- $5,826,260
- Liabilities
- $688,345
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Betsy Norcross-Plourde (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Betsy Norcross-Plourde (Executive Director): $138,570 total reported compensation
- Robert J Schenberger Jr (Finance Director): $104,220 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promise Early Education Center's (formerly Androscoggin Head Start and Child Care) mission is to educate, engage and empower families, one child at a time.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Organization provides many other child and family care services to its community. Examples include sponsoring and providing family educators, who meet weekly with client-families at the family's home. Educators guide and engage parents, lead activities, and act as resources for questions, concerns, and support. The goal is to help parents build a healthy parent-child relationship. Visits include education and child development opportunities, social services referrals, and guidance and referrals for health, mental health, and nutrition concerns. We also offer group gatherings twice a month where families can meet other parents of young children, helping build a community of support. Promise also provides prenatal support and assistance to expectant mothers to support healthy pregnancies and childbirth, starting the path toward a future of possibility for babies right from the start. A family educator conveniently visits families in their home and helps them through prenatal coaching, nutritional counseling (including WIC benefits), and helps to coordinate attendance at local childbirth education and newborn parenting classes. We also provide information on establishing a medical and dental home, health insurance, and any other community resource that provides support to expectant families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 89% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $139K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.