Noahs Ark Nursery School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231370433
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Quarryville, PA, USA
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,028
- Expenses
- $112,344
- Assets
- $115,428
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Catherine Peifer (President and Treasurer)
- Patricia Chase (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Catherine Peifer (President and Treasurer)
- Patricia Chase (Vice President)
- Andrea Kirk (Community Member)
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
Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it. Proverbs 22:6 is our mission statement. We are a Christian Preschool. We believe a child is a complete person designed by God growing and maturing in every dimension. To enhance the development of well-rounded individuals our goals are for each child to: 1 Succeed and enjoy his her Preschool experience 2 Learn to play and work cooperatively in a group 3 Grow to understand and express his her feelings and to respect the feelings of others 4 Begin to understand Gods love for each of us in His world We strive to provide a flexible program with learning experiences designed to meet the needs of each child. The program seeks to enrich and expand the childs emerging speech and language skills small and large muscle control social and emotional development creative expressions and spiritual and intellectual growth.
What it reported doing in 2024
Noahs Ark Nursery School provides preschool education to children ages 2 through 5. The program supports childrens cognitive development social and emotional growth through teacher instruction classroom routines and play. Christian values are incorporated throughout the curriculum. During the 2024-2025 school year the school served 132 children from the greater Southern End of Lancaster County. Program service revenue totaled $87,224 which included tuition registration fees and scholarship support provided to assist families in need. The direct expenses associated with operating the educational program were approximately $92,248 covering teacher wages and benefits classroom supplies snacks field trips graduation activities special projects and other program related costs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.