Big Sur Park School Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824866494
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Big Sur, CA, USA
Phone
9258181806
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions

Reported finances

Revenue
$149,988
Expenses
$227,328
Assets
$206,585
Liabilities
$3,050

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jennifer Lape (Co President)
  • Emily Peck (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jennifer Lape (Co President)
  • Olivia Pierce-Eiselein (Director)
  • Kyle Blasman (Treasurer)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Mission of BSPS is to serve the children, families, and community of Big Sur by providing child care with an environment and staff that stimulates experiential learning, social and emotional development and a strong connection to the natural world, so that caretakes can be gainfully employed.

What it reported doing in 2025

Providing quality child care for citizens of the community of Big Sur so that they can be employed.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -51.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 33.3%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $208K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 2/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.