Bridges to Kinder School

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
721591497
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Phone
8314293878
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Family Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$124,521
Expenses
$126,092
Assets
$25,481
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LINDSEY COSTANZA (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • LAURA TOBIAS (FOUNDEREXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • LINDSEY COSTANZA (PRESIDENT)
  • LESLIE MAYER (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

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What it reported doing in 2024

Pre-k and preschool classes for children. Focus: to prepare children for kindergarten and provide early childhood education. Parents participate.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
  • Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.