Free State Montessori School Inc

Overview

Mission

Free state montessori school is committed to the educational process, and the discovery of self within the context of community. Free state seeks to teach a more peaceable way by creating a whole school community. In partnership with parents, free state seeks to assist children in the process of becoming the next generation of leaders who are well-educated, self-actualized individuals committed and capable of contributing to the betterment of the world. As co-learners in the process, free state honors the inestimable worth and universal right of every child to discover their own personal excellence in every facet of their lives, among loving and mutually respectful relationships. Free state recognizes the natural tendencies of children and believes that every child is gifted with an innate love of learning, which can be nurtured and sustained for a lifetime through positive, challenging expectations, self-reflection, and purposeful engagement in the world. Free state's mission is to cr

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 95% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 23
• Transparency & Controls: 90
• Accountability: 69
• Sustainability: 23
• Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 28.4% of revenue deployed · 23.3% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $48K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $11K · 5 people listed
• Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules
• Filing history: 6 filing years from 2009 to 2014
• 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
• High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.