Highland Elementary PTA
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911969225
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Lake Stevens, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4253351585
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,941
- Expenses
- $58,226
- Assets
- $32,668
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Katy Nicholson (President)
- Jason Vasquez (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Katy Nicholson (President)
- Jason Vasquez (Vice President)
- Madeleine Benson (Co-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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Educational and working for the health, welfare, safety, education, care, and protection of children.
What it reported doing in 2024
School Grants are funds used for purchases that exceed the normally budgeted amounts for any program line item listed on the Annual Budget. For the 2024-2025 school year, there were a total of 11 grants approved that directly benefited all students and staff (500+). Fanny packs for our paraeducators were granted to ensure the most common everyday demands were met the instant they arose by keeping those necessary items close at hand- band-aids, pencils and pens, behavior incentives, and tissues are some examples. A Social Thinking program was granted that focuses on helping kids figure out how to think in social situations and build life skills. A language translator was granted to connect multi-lingual families with their students' teachers and ensure that all academic and social needs were being met. Literacy tools were granted to aid the students that needed a little extra help with literacy. Benches were granted so students could learn outside amidst fresh air and sunshine (weather permitting). An anti-bullying assembly was funded to teach students about how to recognize different types of bullying and conflict resolution. A program was granted that provided each student with a book that was collectively read by the whole school; this promoted reading and comradery. 5th grade students had their rocket program funded that taught them physics. A new curtain was granted that separates the cafeteria from the music room to reduce the amount of excess noise and distractions. Foundational reading skills were implemented with supplemental programs and materials. Several staff members were sent to a state conference to learn more about updates to standardized state testing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.7%; rating input score 38
- Program expense ratio: 37.5%; rating input score 37
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.7% of revenue deployed · 37.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.