Grady's Classroom Inc

What it reported doing in 2024

Grady's classroom is a mission-driven organization that uses a unique educational curriculum and implementation approach that integrates animation show content, experiential learning with kids, and rigorous evaluation of the experience to help advance and promote healthy eating, active living, and food and nutrition security for all.our strategy includes strong partners and partnerships, with organizations that serve children, particularly those in greatest needs and at greatest risk, and facilitates content and implementation in a way that is feasible and effective.program activities include school garden planning and builds, animation content backed with age-appropriate, purposeful, and targeted curricular materials (e.g., social emotional learning, nutrition and health, and gardening), and experiential learning extensions such as recipe testing, games, and tastings! Each module features a unique animation episode and then a series of session components that support the learning targets in bitesize chunks that are fun for kids and easy for staff or teachers to implement.we methodically developed, tested, and received validation results for our first project, which is to combat childhood obesity and food insecurity in communities of color. We first created gady's garden, an animation show that chronicles the lives of six kids of color who seek to introduce a garden to make vegetables available to their families and communities, which further led to the creation of the first animation episode, "let's plant a salad." we then partnered with phd. Nutrition experts and local k-6 schools in grand rapids, mi to develop an intervention protocol pre and post viewing of the first show episode. The results were promising: there was a statistically significant increase in the identification of celery (+ 37.5%) and onions (+12.5%) following the intervention; and there also was a statistically significant increase in willingness to try celery (+50%) and romaine lettuce (+75%) following the intervention. As we scale this intervention approach, we will continue to generate positive results that lead to increased vegetable consumption and healthy kids.during 2024, we tested our ecosystem of edutainment, educational curriculum and app technology with multiple k-6 schools in grand rapids Michigan, celedonia, Michigan and beloit, Wisconsin. The number of 2nd and 3rd grade participants exceeded two thousand participants. Our results demonstrated an increase in willingness to try vegetables by as much as 37 percent and the new grady's garden app technology was well received by students and teachers.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 48.7%; rating input score 49
• Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 29.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 30.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 43.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 62.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings