Kiddie Science Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463322622
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6464201880
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,478
- Expenses
- $61,299
- Assets
- $190,266
- Liabilities
- $101,732
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carmen Castillo-Barrett (Executive Director/Science Educator)
People named in this filing
- Carmen Castillo-Barrett (Executive Director/Science Educator)
- Pavani Thagirisa (Board Member- Acting Chair)
- Tiffany Marsh (Secretary/Assistant 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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Kiddie Science is a Brooklyn based nonprofit organization aimed at presented engaging, hands-on science workshops to young children and families. We work with NYC public schools, community organizations, libraries, early childhood programs, and more. It is our goal to make science accessible to underserved and low-income populations in school districts that lack proper resources for hands-on science exploration. We work with ages 3 to 12, to make science a fun and tangible experience for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
Expanded our local impact by collaborating with our local community center to present free and low-cost science workshop through the summer months.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.8%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.1; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18% of revenue deployed · 22.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.