Lutherville Lab PTA Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237030976
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Lutherville, MD, USA
Phone
2032172842
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$53,851
Expenses
$46,674
Assets
$22,233
Liabilities
$3,288

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lisa Reagle (President)
  • Catherine Pilotte (Vice President)
  • Shannon Weiss (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Lisa Reagle (President)
  • Elizabeth Roe (Treasurer)
  • Catherine Pilotte (Vice 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To support the education, health, and welfare of all children and youth.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Lutherville Lab PTA supported just over 400 children and their families at the Lutherville Lab Elementary school during the school year of 2024-2025. The PTA also supported the 80 plus staff that worked at Lutherville Lab Elementary. The PTA's program services accomplishments fall into three categories: School Support, Community Events, and Hospitality. For School Support the PTA helped to support after school clubs, supported teachers in obtaining classroom enrichment, supported the school in purchasing school supplies for all students thus reducing inequities amongst students and their families, supported purchasing planners for the third through fifth grade students, supported in-school activities including Ballroom Dance, Sports Day, and Monster Mile, supported the principal in pursuing new school initiatives for the year, supported the Social Emotional Learning department with trying out new software to support 504 and IEP's, supported the school with field trip support, supported the school in repairing musical instruments, supported kindergarten classrooms in obtaining new rugs, and in holding various end of the year celebration such as the fifth grade and kindergarten end-of-the-year celebrations. The PTA held numerous community events throughout the year, including the Welcome Back to School Chalk the Walk event, School Spring Family Fun Night, Skate Night, Young Entrepreneurs Event, School Fall Family Fun Night, Pizza bingo Night, Hula for Hopkins event, Garden Cleanup Days, Books and Donuts with Grown-ups, numerous playground meet ups held in the different neighborhoods in the Lutherville Lab Elementary school district, and Movie Nights. The PTA provides support to the staff of Lutherville elementary by providing different hospitality initiatives. This includes providing appreciation and acknowledgment during National School Staff Appreciation Week, providing lounge support for teachers, providing support during professional development days by coordinating luncheons for staff, and engaging in community outreach and recognition of staff throughout the year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 96% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $37K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.