Highland Ranch Educational Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300629452
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8586744707
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,521
- Expenses
- $101,939
- Assets
- $146,314
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SUNNY MONTAS (President & CEO)
- LAUREN TYE (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- SUNNY MONTAS (President & CEO)
- LAUREN TYE (Vice President)
- ADAM VALE CRUZ (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation is dedicated to the children of highland ranch elementary school. The foundation is committed to the children's welfare by providing additional financial support to enhance and improve the curriculum and educational opportunities for all students attending the school.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide school supplies and equipment
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.6%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $99K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.