Crofton Nursery School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520854630
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Crownsville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4102244920
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $69,659
- Expenses
- $61,887
- Assets
- $41,009
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNY MORSE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JESSICA CRUFF (VP HEALTH AND SAFETY)
- KATIE O'KEEFE (VP MEMBERSHIP)
- PAMELA AILSHIE (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Crofton nursery school is dedicated to the comprehensive, effective, and compassionate education of children through human involvement and interaction. The purpose of this organization shall be twofold: to develop self-reliance in the child and provide a satisfactory transition between home and school; and to encourage cooperative learning through parent participation at school and parent education meetings.
What it reported doing in 2024
Crofton nusery school's only program service is to provide part-time education to 3 and 4 year olds in a cooperative school setting in which parents heavily assist in the execution of school responsibilities. During the 2024-2025 school year approximately 25 students were served.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 93
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.4% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.