Benjamin Stoddert School Pto
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521195083
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026716030
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $205,937
- Expenses
- $208,656
- Assets
- $565,755
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MOULIN DESAI (CO-PRESIDENT)
- MARIE O'HARA (CO-PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MOULIN DESAI (CO-PRESIDENT)
- MARIE O'HARA (CO-PRESIDENT)
- LAUREN SZCZUROWSKI (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a safe, caring, nurturing learning environment for each child to learn to the fullest potential. To help children understand, respect, and appreciate cultural differences and similarities, religious and ethnic practices, and to be kind and considerate to each other. To implement the principles of learning within a standards-based curriculum not only to achieve academic excellence, but also to develop creativity, problem solving abilities, and higher-level thinking skills. To provide the best possible subject matter and teaching methodologies in english, reading, writing, mathematics, the arts, social studies, science, and technology in which each student can learn and build capacity for learning. To instill in each child the importance of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and good citizenship. To help each child acquire the habits of setting high expectations, meeting standards, and applying learning.
What it reported doing in 2024
Parent teacher organization (pto) program: dedicated and energetic parents and teachers' group that sponsor many school activities and events benefiting students, faculty, and staff. Activities and events include before and after school care programs, staff appreciation day, enhancing the school environment and natural habitat, hospitality and childcare, school directory, website, newsletters, and other communications to keep families involved and engaged, annual fun fair, book fair, and many more special events and fundraising activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.6%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.71; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.9% of revenue deployed · 98.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $206K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.