Neighborhood Villages Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821859365
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
Phone
6176458031
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,946,088
Expenses
$7,778,021
Assets
$7,520,212
Liabilities
$504,715

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LANDIS BECKER-YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
  • DEBORAH ENOS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BINAL PATEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • SARAH MUNCEY (CO-PRES/CHIEF INNOV. OFF/SECRETARY): $219,361 total reported compensation
  • LAUREN KENNEDY (CO-PRES/CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $209,315 total reported compensation
  • KATHRYN GREENBERG (CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER): $202,081 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Neighborhood villages designs and scales innovative and collaborative solutions to the biggest challenges facing early education and child care providers serving families with young children ages 0-5 and advances sustainable, equity-driven systems change through advocacy, education, and policy reform.

What it reported doing in 2024

Neighborhood villages' largest program is its workforce program, which encompasses both its registered apprenticeships and its degree and scholarship support programs. In fy25, we welcomed 74 apprentices in the cda track and 22 in the director track as cohort 2. This cohort graduates during fy26 and will earn lead teacher and director certification for their work. In addition, neighborhood villages supported 211 educators in achieving lead teacher certification via college coursework as part of the good jobs challenge. Our team provided critical support, developing an innovative coaching model designed around the specific needs of working early educators. Over the duration of the program, early educators completed courses at an 84% rate, including a completion rate of 98% for the final course of the program.our second largest program is teaching and learning, through which we have developed, in partnership with the lego foundation and boston public schools, a high-quality, open-source, play-based toddler curriculum. We are now working on the infant version of the curriculum. Our teaching and learning team also provides instructional coaching in classrooms in the childcare centers we fund through our grant program.finally, with funding from the department of early education and care, we were able to provide emergency response services across the state. These services took two primary forms: two mobile classroom spaces fashioned out of former school buses delivering high-quality instruction in temporary housing settings, and the distribution of material goods (diapers, wipes, coats, etc.) to organizations serving families statewide.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 93
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.4%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 75.7%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 2.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 34.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.4% of revenue deployed · 75.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $219K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $474K reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.