Early Math and Language Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873672429
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Yarmouth, ME, US
- Phone
- 2072004478
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,121
- Expenses
- $56,441
- Assets
- $101,652
- Liabilities
- $9,024
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- JAYASHREE SONTI (EXECUTIVE DI)
- ANJU JAIN (CHAIR)
- BONNIE WALSTROM (ACTING TREAS)
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
EMLI helps families from under-resourced communities prepare their children for success in kindergarten mathematics and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2025
Spring 2025 and fall 2025 - family math (kindergarten math readiness program): in emli continued offering the flagship family math program a math-centric kindergarten readiness program (kmrp) for preschool children and their families at two locations in lewiston (1) title i school; (2) at a community location in lewiston. In spring 2025 emli expanded the program to the greater portland area and conducted two sessions in spring and fall 2025. Success of the program prompted us to start two additional locations in fall 2025. However, due to low enrollment we discontinued the two programs. One of which we reopened at a new location in spring 2026 in portland, and it is going well. Engaging young learners and their families in "math play- and "math talk" during the family math classes provides children with positive, vital early math experiences that set the stage for later learning. These activities are designed to capture the child's natural curiosity, encourage parent- child interactions, and foster the competencies necessary to thrive in a competitive academic environment. Students and adult family members work through selected activities with their children guided by emli's teachers. In an informal, welcoming atmosphere, parents learn to model critical thinking strategies, utilize targeted mathematics terminology, and become familiar with how to best play an active role in supporting their child's early math skills development. Emli recognizes that children learn best when their natural curiosity is supported and expanded upon by both teachers and the important adults in the child's life. These three factors make up the key components of emli's programs: the child, the family, and the teacher. Emli places the fostering of positive, supportive interactions between all three at the center of learning experiences.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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 available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.7%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
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: 32.1%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 61.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 59.7% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.