Multnomah Playschool

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
930423970
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5032449141
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$72,093
Expenses
$116,490
Assets
$5,454
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Cassy Berry Crain (Co-President)
  • Rebekah Odgear (Co-President)

People named in this filing

  • Amanthus Lunn (Director and Head Teacher)
  • Kathleen Ulrich (Treasurer)
  • Cassy Berry Crain (Co-President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Multnomah Playschool's purpose is to provide preschool education through play-based learning with a commitment to celebrating diversity. The school is a parent cooperative preschool providing service to enrolled children ages 3-5 years and their families.

What it reported doing in 2024

MPS provides preschool classes for children ages 3-5 in four 2.5 hour sessions per week, attended by 9-12 students at a time. As a parent-cooperative preschool, parents are required to assist in the classroom along with 2-3 professional teachers. Parents also comprise the Board of Directors, and all families are assigned jobs throughout the school year, including board members.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 74% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -61.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -14.6% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -35.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $116K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.