Escuela Key Elementary PTA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541260487
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7032284210
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,863
- Expenses
- $79,432
- Assets
- $203,061
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Paula Cordero Salas (President)
People named in this filing
- Paula Cordero Salas (President)
- Lizette Rodriguez-Carrk (Secretary)
- Laura Cummings (Treasurer)
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
The Escuela Key PTA is a volunteer-led organization of parents, teachers, staff, and community members working together to enrich every student's educational experience.
What it reported doing in 2025
Student / Family Support and Community Building: Events and trainings to serve the 700+ students and families in the Escuela Key community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- 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: 35.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $81K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.