Montgomery Montessori School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232490660
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Huntingdon Valley, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2159387688
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,227,494
- Expenses
- $1,301,818
- Assets
- $330,343
- Liabilities
- $110,563
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN SLIFER (DIRECTOR): $190,225 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operation of a non-profit daycare and preschool center. The school is a parent-run organization montgomery montessori school is a non-profit montessori preschool which offers a unique early child experience for the children enrolled, by offering a comprehensive experience that targets the individual attributes of each child. Our character as a montessori school dervies from our affiliation with the american montessori society and the international montessori society. We aim to provide a total learning environment that is peaceful and fun. The montessori approach specifically features self- directed and self-correcting activities using specially sized and structured materials. Our goal is to build the child's independence, confidence and self-discipline by balancing freedom with an orderly structure. The children not only gain an appreciation of their own talents but also learn at a very early age the importance of working together to accomplish set goals
What it reported doing in 2024
Operation of a non-profit daycare and preschool center. The school is a parent-run organization.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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
MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Limited
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.6% of revenue deployed · 85.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $190K · 1 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.