Oak Knoll School Parent Teacher Organization
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201192341
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6508544433
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $226,178
- Expenses
- $235,157
- Assets
- $325,075
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA LOW AH KEE (PRESIDENT)
- FRANCIE MALETIS (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MEREDITH NONNENBERG (PARLIAMENTARIAN)
- LAURA LOW AH KEE (PRESIDENT)
- FRANCIE MALETIS (VICE 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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The oak knoll school parent teacher organization is a child advocacy organization whose focus is working with the school and parents for the well-being and education of children and youth.
What it reported doing in 2024
School programsthe pto funds school programs such as music, art, and science programs which are available to all students regardless of ability to pay supply cost.parent, teacher and student functionsincludes staff development, speakers, scholarships, community outreach programs, teacher appreciation, parent education, parent service awards, hospitality, emergency preparedness, school beautification, and informational publications. All members of the school community participate.pto councildues for the council's administrative support, speaker programs and annual honorary service awards ceremony.field tripsthe pto funds and provides volunteers for school sponsored field trips. All students participate.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.4%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 81.6%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $19.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.38; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.4% of revenue deployed · 81.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $192K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 15 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.