Mini Minds

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
990444638
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Eaton, OH, USA
Phone
9373451859
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,060,206
Expenses
$1,058,399
Assets
$3,312,509
Liabilities
$1,211

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARY BULLEN (PRESIDENT)
  • HAROLD NIEHAUS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CHRISTINA REVEAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHRISTINA REVEAL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $119,240 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To champion high-quality early learning and healthy development strategies from the prenatal period to age eleven and lay a strong foundation for preble county kids, families, and the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Preble mini minds provides high-quality early childhood education and development services to children 6 weeks to 12 years old. Programming focuses on preparing children for success in school and life through individualized, evidence-based educational and social-emotional learning practices. Preble mini minds utilizes creative curriculum, a play-based, whole-child curriculum incorporating daily literacy instruction grounded in the science of reading. Through intentional learning experiences, children develope language, literacy, phonological awareness, math, problem-solving, and other school-readiness skills. Individual assessments are used to monitor development, guide instruction, and cummunicate progress with families. For 2025, pre-k outcomes demonstrated strong academic readiness: at the fall checkpoint, 100% of pre-k children not receiving services through an individualized education program (iep) met the widely held expectations for math and language development. Preble mini minds also utilized conscious discipline to support children's social-emotional development. This approach equips educators to foster self-regulation, positive relationships, conflict-resolution skills, responsible decision-making, and cooperative classroom environments. Preble mini minds strengthened its services through partnerships with six community organizations: national trail district future farmers of america, preble county district library, preble county osu extension office, early childhood collaborative, family and children first council, and early head start for preble county. These partnerships expanded educational experiences, family resources, and connections to community-based services for children and families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 81
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
  • Fundraising efficiency: $76.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.13; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 136.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -107.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.2% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $955K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $119K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.