Early Starters USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991949020
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464726938
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $134,480
- Expenses
- $132,234
- Assets
- $3,336
- Liabilities
- $1,090
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sarah Wilner (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Sarah Wilner (CEO)
- Evelyn G Lipper (Director)
- Ellise Delphin Rose (Director)
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
Early Starters USA Supports Young Children and Families Through Early Childhood Education. Early Starters USA creates safe, nurturing, and trauma-informed early childhood spaces for young children and their caregivers across New York City. Their programs focus on children aged 0-4, fostering early learning, social-emotional development, and parent engagement to strengthen family well-being.In 2024, Early Starters USA Inc has operated seven Early Childhood Safe Spaces, supporting over 200 families through their NY state programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, Early Starters USA has operated seven Early Childhood Safe Spaces, supporting over 200 families through the NY programs (spaces and Shelters).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $132K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.