Christ Church Preschool
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020615760
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- Phone
- 919-832-5043
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $464,210
- Expenses
- $439,788
- Assets
- $302,582
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WENDY DALY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- NICHOLAS HOFER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- WENDY DALY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $49,400 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christ Church Preschool provides a nurturing, safe and stimulating environment where a young child’s development and learning are supported. Curriculum activities are planned to meet the needs of the “whole child”, which include spiritual, intellectual, social-emotional and physical and are implemented by competent caring teachers with the use of age-appropriate materials and meaningful experiences.
What it reported doing in 2024
The christ church preschool program is designed to provide an educational experience in a christian setting for children who will grow spiritually and are encouraged to develop respect and positive feelings for others. We taught approximately 120 children from september to may, in 9 classrooms with 20 well-qualified teachers 5 days per week. We structure our time together to offer a balance of free play and planned activities appropriate for the children's developmental levels. The program provides materials, books, and toys that enhance the children's experiences and reflect the diversity of the children themselves. Our staff of experienced early childhood educators enthusiastically encourages your child to reach his potential and will treat him with dignity and respect. The children will:-have opportunities to work with small and large groups as well as alone-play and work in centers-sing and listen to music, stories, and poems-be exposed to drama and the creation of stories-use various art supplies, such as paint, crayons, chalk, paper, material scraps, scissors and glue as a form of self-expression-participate in music and movement-help plan his/her own experiences and build his/her self-esteem and social skills have the opportunity to play outside-participate in field trips, godly play, and chapel
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 72%; rating input score 72
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.2%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 72% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $317K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $49K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 1 filing year from 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.