Montessori School of Bowling Green
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341314846
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bowling Green, OH, USA
- Phone
- 4193524203
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,321,451
- Expenses
- $1,272,351
- Assets
- $2,548,160
- Liabilities
- $672,834
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE CONLIN (Vice President)
- DANIELLE SOLIS (President)
Highest reported compensation
- BEVERLY BECHSTEIN (Executive Direc): $69,960 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 educate the whole child in a montessori environment, teaching mutual respect, personal responsibility and self-direction. To provide training to educators in the montessori teaching methods.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education of children - september through june - school year
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.7%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
- 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: 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 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.7%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.7% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $979K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.