Marianne Frostig Center of Educational Therapy
Legal name: Marianne Frostig Ctr of Edu Therapy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 952098575
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Pasadena, CA, USA
- Phone
- 626.791.1255
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,468,175
- Expenses
- $8,155,887
- Assets
- $16,796,884
- Liabilities
- $5,129,049
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DEAN CONKLIN III (Asst. Head of School-see Sch O): $341,045 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER TUCKER MOTTES (Head of School-see Sch O): $231,095 total reported compensation
- GIOVANNI DELGADO PARHAM (CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER): $208,186 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enable children with learning differences to grow, thrive, and reach their greatest potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
The frostig school serves children in grades 1-12 with intellectual potential within the broad average range who have learning disabilities and can benefit from an academically oriented school program. The typical student remains with the school for 3 to 5 years. Approximately 90% of the school's students finished high school and 86% continued on past high school in some form of post-secondary education or training. The school serves up to 130 students, approximately 20% elementary, 30% middle school, and 50% high school. Services provided are: counseling, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, educational therapy, and assistive technology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 70% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.9%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.06; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $7.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $341K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.