Eureka Early Childhood Development Organization

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
881911588
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Eureka, MT, USA
Phone
4065563180
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Child Day Care

Reported finances

Revenue
$150,936
Expenses
$156,899
Assets
$44,299
Liabilities
$3,294

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KARYN LEONARD (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KARYN LEONARD (PRESIDENT)
  • TRUDY WILL (VICE PRESIDE)
  • MANDY ERICKSON (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

We are a non-profit organization in eureka, Montana, led by a board of directors dedicated to improving early childhood development opportunities in our community. Our vision is to collaboratively work with the eureka community in uplifting and empowering all our children. We will partner with families and other organizations to provide enriching, engaging and quality whole child learning. We intend to create and maintain programs that support children from all families within our space where everyone feels safe, valued, and a sense of belonging.

What it reported doing in 2025

We have continued to have full enrollment and a wait list which signals a good reputation built on quality care. Our caregivers are becoming more experienced and have added preschool curriculum to the offerings. We hope to send our director back to school soon for her cda certification. Our daycare, bright skies, was licensed and opened end of september 2023 and began receiving program tuition.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • 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: -4%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 45.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $157K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.