La Playa Nursery School Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
951945773
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Culver City, CA, USA
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$178,842
Expenses
$167,158
Assets
$170,594

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Phin Palmer (President)
  • Brit Friedman (Vice President I - Fundraising)
  • Meghan Buckley (Vice President II - Human Resources)

People named in this filing

  • Teresa L Avila (Director)
  • Mayra Ybarra (Teacher)
  • Phin Palmer (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

To run a cooperative preschool program emphasizing play social-emotional development and parent education.

What it reported doing in 2025

Preschool Program targeting kids aged 2-5. In 2025 around 30 kids participated. The school follows a traditional school year meeting five times a week for three hours in the morning

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 90% 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

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: 96
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.7%; rating input score 94
  • 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: 6.5%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 64.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $167K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.