Children's Learning Centers of Amarillo Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750800601
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Amarillo, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8063745223
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,260,160
- Expenses
- $3,733,174
- Assets
- $7,099,504
- Liabilities
- $204,759
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TYLER ANDREWS (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- TYLER ANDREWS (PRESIDENT)
- GARY PAUL MOORE (TREASURER)
- SHANDI HOWARD (DIRECTOR)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a stimulating, healthy and safe environment for children, where they experience developmental and learning activities appropriate for their age and ability levels.
What it reported doing in 2025
Direct child care - the corporation provides child care services to approximately 760 children in 8 daycare centers located in amarillo, Texas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
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: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -14.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.8% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.