Creative Learning 4 Kids Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 752867437
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Plano, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9723656846
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,957,286
- Expenses
- $4,706,670
- Assets
- $2,675,791
- Liabilities
- $446,876
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAN VAN BLARCUM (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAN VAN BLARCUM (PRESIDENT): $217,216 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The einstein school seeks to educate the whole child; a child well-armed with knowledge and with an ability to apply what has been learned in real world situations. Einstein students work in an environment where creative thinking is not just encouraged but applauded and cherished; an environment where mistakes are viewed not as failure but as the exploration of a path that led in the wrong direction. The self-confidence our students gain through hard work, acceptance, and tolerance of new ideas allows them to embrace personal integrity and to develop a deep sense of responsibility that allows them to make wise and ethical choices. A rigorous education; abiding curiosity; and respect, compassion, and service to others are the principled foundation on which einstein students will build their future and the reason that an einstein education is special.
What it reported doing in 2025
The einstein school is a private school dedicated to the education of students grades 5-12. The school provides a structured and positive environment that allows our students to work in an atmosphere conducive to developing self-esteem while growing intellectually, morally, socially, and emotionally. We provide a challenging educational program and broad-based activities designed to help students experience the joy of learning. Our students are given the opportunity to excel above their grade level without having to be removed from their peer group.
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 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 45
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $217K · 5 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.