Honeypot Montessori Incorporated

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
871170100
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Trenton, NJ, USA
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Specialized Education Institutions

Reported finances

Revenue
$169,319
Expenses
$244,108
Assets
$84,672
Liabilities
$198,600

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Deja Jones (Board President and Head of School)
  • DeQuan Foster (Board Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Deja Jones (Board President and Head of School)
  • Angelina Hawley-Dolan (Board Secretary)
  • DeQuan Foster (Board Vice President)

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

Honeypot Montessori is a nature learning micro-school located in the Greater Newark area. We are the first of its kind and have situated ourselves at the heart of Newarks community revitalization and environmental justice movements to encourage residents to reshape our collective understanding towards educating children for life and liberation as an important factor. The Montessori method inspires radical creativity independence and critical thinking in children as they journey toward self-construction.

What it reported doing in 2025

Our organization delivered tailored Montessori education services to a cohort of ten children aged 3 to 6. Our program emphasized nature-inspired learning and STEM enrichment activities. Through hands-on experiences and individualized instruction we fostered a holistic approach to early childhood education nurturing curiosity and a love for learning in each child.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 54.5%; rating input score 54

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -44.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.35; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 25.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 54.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $133K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.