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What it reported doing in 2024

During the 2024-2025 academic school year, the AKW Grant continued to serve children. Our Early Head Start program enrolled 80 children in our 3 standalone sites and our Head Start program continued serving 134 children through our partnerships with Floresville ISD and Charlotte ISD. We wanted to make sure our families continued to feel involved in their child's education by providing monthly parent meetings followed by family engagement activities. During the family engagement activities, families are invited to come to the center and join their child for a creative activity. During this time, families can see what the children have been learning about in the classroom as well. This year AKW added a by-monthly Father Engagement classroom activity to have more father and/or father figures involved in the children's education. AKW also added the Let's Read Together take-home activities to enhance reading at home with a family member. Parents also continued to volunteer and attend Policy Council meetings via zoom. Teachers continue to send home educational activities daily; this gives parents the opportunity to spend some time with their child at home extending on what they are learning at school. This school year we had 214 parent volunteers. AKW grant continues to implement the parent curriculum called Ready Rosie. Ready Rosie delivers parenting curriculum videos via text. The City of Poteet continued to provide volunteers services each month by mowing the yard, paying for water and trash services. The City of Poteet included in their yearly donations the opportunity to house AKW's mains office, training room and storage shed while donating the rental cost, water and trash services. Our stand-alone sites continue working with the local community partnerships to provide resources and referrals to our families on as needed basis.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
• Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings