Clarendon Early Education Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042648114
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lawrence, MA, USA
- Phone
- 9786910018
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $34,889,592
- Expenses
- $32,270,234
- Assets
- $10,958,658
- Liabilities
- $2,877,826
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISTINE SCHNEIDER (PRESIDENT)
- MARGARET MCDONALD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- ROSEMARY HERNANDEZ (CO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EDU. & TRAINING)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET MCDONALD (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $156,839 total reported compensation
- ROSEMARY HERNANDEZ (CO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF EDU. & TRAINING): $135,748 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL BACIGALUPO (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $113,767 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and affordable child care services. To promote small business opportunities for women and men in the Massachusetts family child care industry. To promote quality of care and to enhance professionalism in early childhood education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Family childcare: to provide support, technical assistance, transportation, training and childcare services to licensed family childcare educators throughout the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Enhancing early childhood education and care practices as well as encouraging family engagement. Supporting family child care business within the communities we serve. Training department: to provide high quality professional development opportunities to educators and staff at all career stages. Additionally, the training department aims to promote agency growth through provision of professional development opportunities to non-affiliated stakeholders in the field of early education and care in Massachusetts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.7%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 95.9%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.7% of revenue deployed · 95.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $30.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 13 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $974K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.