Early Engagement
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822012264
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Santa Monica, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104281630
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $96,317
- Expenses
- $63,155
- Assets
- $56,732
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEN SWETT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BEN SWETT (PRESIDENT)
- AMY ANDERSON (TREASURER)
- CARLO CABINALLA (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Early engagement supports the development of lifelong mental wellness tools (cognitive, social and emotional skills) in young children (0-3) by supporting fathers. We help fathers manage themselves to create a family mental learning environment that gives young children the best chance of developing the lifelong "mental wealth" traits of confidence, self- knowledge, resilience and people skills that lead to success in school, at work and in relationships, ultimately leading them to grow into responsible adults who can take care of themselves and others.
What it reported doing in 2025
New parent education, focused on fathers. In-person delivery of support, instruction and peer connection to new fathers in los angeles through start start dadtime and strong start practice. Built father engagement through direct delivery of over 2,700 person hours of free parent/child sessions through collaboration with public school system and parks/community centers and delivery of programs to father in "at risk" populations in collaboration with community partners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.6%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 84.8%; rating input score 85
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 51.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 82.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.6% of revenue deployed · 84.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.