Community Early Learning Center of the Fox Valley Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471117143
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Appleton, WI, USA
- Phone
- 9208326209
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $512,591
- Expenses
- $538,628
- Assets
- $1,350,020
- Liabilities
- $6,191
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTA STATZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MARTA STATZ (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $39,735 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To ensure that by age five, all our children have the foundation to achieve their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
The kindness project seeks to enhance the educational programming at three celc agencies by implementing a mindfulness-based kindness curriculum through collaboration with dr. Richard davidson's healthy minds innovation team at the university of Wisconsin-madison (https://centerhealthyminds.org/). The kindness curriculum includes 24 lessons that teach children to focus their attention, be empathetic to others, control their emotions, and express caring and gratitude. Enriching the current programming with the kindness curriculum helps us to better ensure that by age 5, all our children have the foundation to reach their full potential. The project is serving about 250 children per year (predominantly low-income children), their parents, and their teachers, and helps to provide children with the self-regulation skills that lead to personal, social, and academic success.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 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: -5.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.51; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $538K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $40K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.