Montessori in Motion
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911080903
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- University Place, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2535653080
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,809,972
- Expenses
- $1,795,858
- Assets
- $1,213,016
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tonya M May (Vice President)
- Diana M Longen (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Tonya M May (Vice President): $93,702 total reported compensation
- Jessica Anderson (Treasurer): $56,755 total reported compensation
- Diana M Longen (President): $2,607 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Montessori in Motion, we believe that each child is a unique individual with unknown potential. Children are born with a drive to develop themselves. They learn best from their own physical activity and senses if given the freedom to discover, explore, and create in an enriched environment with supportive guidance based on the observation of the individual child's interests and needs. The method of education used at MIM follows those principles laid down by Dr. Maria Montessori in the early 1900s, with an open-ended approach that encourages innovation and growth. Learning needs to be integrated, comprehensive, and based on the reality of the child's world. Educational experiences must vary in kind and degree in order that each child's unique potential is challenged.
What it reported doing in 2023
Educational Institutions and Related Activities: Activities, books and supplies (100 Approximate number of children)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 99.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $124K reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.