Marble Arch Test Prep & Tutoring
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472190338
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2016
- Location
- San Mateo, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6505796180
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $45,809
- Expenses
- $46,456
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH A STONE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ELIZABETH A STONE (PRESIDENT)
- DORIA E CHARLSON (SECRETARY)
- MEREDITH J CHARLSON (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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Partnering with local organizations and high schools to provide college counseling and test prep services and awarding scholarships to low-income students.
What it reported doing in 2016
Beginning to make contact with several recreational departments and local organizations with which to partner in creating test preparation sites for young boys and girls for high school entrance exams, psat, and subject tests.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 54.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -97.9% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2016
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.