German Language School for Children in Seattle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910793404
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2063511209
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $113,051
- Expenses
- $99,580
- Assets
- $162,553
- Liabilities
- $47,110
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN SCHAEFER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BIRGIT ZISCHKE (PRINCIPAL)
- CHUCK RABURA (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- CHERYL MACDONALD (MEMBER AT LARGE)
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
See schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $98K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- 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: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.