Gardiner Snoopy Cooperative Preschool
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810132834
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Gardiner, MT, USA
- Phone
- 4062236662
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,776
- Expenses
- $47,898
- Assets
- $48,699
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Amy C Tuning (Director / Lead Teacher)
- Katye Oshaben (Assistant Teacher)
- Alexis Bush (Board Chair)
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
Snoopy School is a licensed, non-profit cooperative preschool striving to provide an environment where its students may generate a strong sense of self-esteem as well as respect and appreciation for each other and the world in which they live, while preparing for kindergarten. Providing self-rewarding experiences for each child in a fun and enjoyable learning environment. Help develop the "whole" child: socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively. Ensure each child receives group interaction, individualized guidance at their level, and freedom to develop self esteem. Provide creative hands-on Pre-K based curriculum designed specifically for three to five year old children in preparation for kindergarten in a structured school day format. Provide an affordable early childhood education. Parents participate in the classroom in order to keep tuition as low as possible. Registration is limited to 20 students per school year to ensure that each child receives individualized attention
What it reported doing in 2025
Due to the government shutdown this past October 2025, the preschool board deemed financial hardship for 100% of our students. The board voted on reimbursing each family 1 month of tuition (based on the discounted tuition rate). Many families had a least one paycheck short, if not 2, causing families to choose between tuition for preschool and food for their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.