Montessori Children's Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561336266
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Clemmons, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3367665550
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,010,211
- Expenses
- $3,466,715
- Assets
- $4,704,722
- Liabilities
- $3,325,198
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICOLE ROYER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- REBECCA LITTLE (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $56,729 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The montessori school is dedicated to providing a supportive, challenging and culturally diverse educational environment. Each child has the freedom to explore, cooperate, create and become. Our montessori-trained guides and the environments they create, nurture our students to grow to their fullest potential academically, emotionally and socially, thus preparing them to be responsible citizens of our global community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Montessori education program including before and after school care and summer programs. The school serves children from 18 months through 15 years of age.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.7%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $527.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.36; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.7% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $57K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.