Discovery Lab of Ellensburg
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463747399
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Ellensburg, WA, USA
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $195,917
- Expenses
- $169,216
- Assets
- $92,616
- Liabilities
- $9,888
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Nethero (Board President)
People named in this filing
- Natalia Parker (Director)
- Brian Nethero (Board President)
- Morgan Stonefield (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
K-5 Education
What it reported doing in 2024
To create an integrated learning environment where students achieve academic excellence through project-based and exploratory methods
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.4%; rating input score 86
- 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: 13.6%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.4% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $169K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.