Stariņš - Chicago Latvian Preschool
Legal name: Chicago Latvian Child Care and Preschool
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300236715
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- (847) 915-2003
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,288
- Expenses
- $186,468
- Assets
- $99,785
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Karlis Lenss (President)
- Justine Berzins (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Andarte Phillips (Director)
- Lana Jacobs (Teacher)
- Karlis Lenss (President)
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
The Chicago Latvian Preschool (CLP) is an extraordinary scholastic environment structured to develop the social, emotional and physical needs of the child by offering a stimulating program with a strong focus on the family and values that support acceptance and respect of Latvian and other cultures.
What it reported doing in 2024
Preschool programs, expenses include teacher salaries, occupancy costs, food, curriculum materials and supplies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% 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: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 55.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $186K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.