Kids Unlimited Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042925420
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Charlton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5082486772
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,516,830
- Expenses
- $3,279,812
- Assets
- $1,233,010
- Liabilities
- $246,266
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH NOEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
- ALYSSA D NOEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBORAH NOEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT): $163,180 total reported compensation
- ALYSSA D NOEL (VICE PRESIDENT): $140,095 total reported compensation
- JESSICA ERIN RUSSELL (TREASURER/CLERK): $103,251 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization provides children's programs to meet their educational, social, health, recreational and nutritional needs. The organization assists parents in finding appropriate daycare, coordinating transportation, location, and hours of such care. In addition the organization offers a food program to all providers in their system to ensure all children in its care are offered healthy and nutritious meals.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization reimburses day care providers for services and food that they provide to children. The program services are funded by federal and state programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 10th 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: 6.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 8 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $128K reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.