Northvale Preschool C/o Michelle Miller
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923740647
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Northvale, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 2017845062
- Rating
- 37
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $252,520
- Expenses
- $243,590
- Assets
- $20,673
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELLE MILLER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELLE MILLER (PRESIDENT): $37,959 total reported compensation
- CRISTINA VIGANOLA (VICE-PRESIDE): $31,053 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Primary mission is to provide a caring and quality early education to young learners. Its purpose is to provide a safe and happy environment where young children may develop readiness skills and enjoy interpersonal relationships with their peers.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide a caring and quality early education to young learners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 12
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 5
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 12.8%; rating input score 13
- Program expense ratio: 13.3%; rating input score 13
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.08; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 12.8% of revenue deployed · 13.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $32K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 13/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.