Conductive Learning Center of North America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383601587
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6165750575
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $570,267
- Expenses
- $1,129,097
- Assets
- $2,128,029
- Liabilities
- $286,832
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Chuck Saur (President)
- Mark Clarke (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Andrea Swiger (Program Director): $121,923 total reported compensation
- Angela Frier (Director of Development): $107,511 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 provide opportinities for preschool and school age children with motor challenges to achieve optimal physical, cognitive, and social independence through the application of conductive education principles.
What it reported doing in 2024
The CLC provides an intensive multidisciplanary approach to instruction, improvement of motor skills, and social development for children with motor disorders related to complications of prematurity, Cerebal Palsy, Spina Bifida, or brain injury. For these children, even the smallest tasks such as eating, buttoning a shirt, and sitting in a chair can be monumental. Each child has their own unique set of outcomes and goals, which are set to be achievable in small steps that lead them to accomplishing a bigger outcome within their 4-week session time. Goals are developed between the caregivers, child, and the conductor teacher at the start of each 4-week session. Each Conductor teacher works to ensure that students achieve more than 90 of their written goals each session. A progress report is provided to families at the conclusion of each session to report their childs accomplishments.
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 97% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -98%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $803K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.