La Progresiva Presbyterian School (LPS)
Legal name: La Progresiva Presbyterian School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 591361410
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, United States
- Phone
- 3056428600
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,764,357
- Expenses
- $6,105,413
- Assets
- $10,022,280
- Liabilities
- $846,593
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AILYN HERNANDEZ (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- NELIA SENTI (TRUSTEE)
- MARIA ACOSTA (OFFICER)
- MONICA ARAMILLO (OFFICER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve the needs of families by providing a safe and supportive environment in which school-age children can learn skills and develop positive self-concepts and moral values. • The admission fee includes the books, insurance, and the SAT exam. New students will pay a $100.00 for the entrance exam. The certification of immunization and the student health examination is required before the beginning of the school year. • For students enrolling after the first day of school, all applicable fees are due when the student is accepted for enrollment. • The tuition must be paid before the 5th of every month, from August through May. Payments received after the 5th will have a surcharge of $25.00.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization has meet its fiscal and operating objectives and continues to provide a quality educational experience in a positive environment. The organization is proud to have served a student roster of approximately 250 students of varying ages in an caring and nurturing environment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 87%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 87% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2012 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.