Isabella Child Development Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381883874
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
- Phone
- 9897720508
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,753
- Expenses
- $96,336
- Assets
- $85,802
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Holly Hoffman (Board Chair)
- Megan Moreno (Board Vice-Chair/Secretary)
- Megan Goodwin (Board Treasurer)
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
We provide free preschool programming for 4-year-old children from low-income families. Families qualify for enrollment based primarily on family income, using the federal poverty level guidelines, which include household size as a measure of ability to pay. If applications exceed available openings, family income and child needs are considered. Children at risk for later school failure based on recognized criteria such as pre-mature birth, single-parent household, chronic illness, and parental incarceration are given priority consideration.
What it reported doing in 2024
This is an overall summary of the Isabella Child Development Center Preschool. We provide a free preschool program for 4-year-old children from low-income families. The primary goal is to provide a developmentally appropriate preschool experience that prepares children for success in Kindergarten. A school-day program that meets 4 days per week, 8:30am to 3:30pm, is offered for up to 15, 4-year-old children the year prior to kindergarten entry. This is a change from our prior year where we served 3- and 4-year-old children in a 1/2 day program. Needs in our community have changed and a full-day (school-day) program fills a greater need in our service area. The program begins in early September and runs through mid-May and mirrors the calendar of the local school district. Developmental assessments are used at the beginning of the school year to assess individual child needs and as a benchmark for progress throughout the year. All children exhibit growth over the year, with notable progress in social-emotional development and language skills. Over 80% of expenses are for highly qualified staff to lead our early childhood program. The remaining expenses are related to early childhood learning materials, professional development of staff, ensuring safe learning spaces indoors and outside, and general administrative expenses to operate a state-licensed early childhood facility and program. Expenses for qualified teachers, a director, and a classroom assistant totaled $78,417 for the 24-25 school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.