Olympia Early Learning Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910832039
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Olympia, WA, USA
- Phone
- 3602392723
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $137
- Expenses
- $3,685
- Assets
- $66,207
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN MASTERSON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN MASTERSON (PRESIDENT)
- DEAN CARLSON (VICE PRESIDE)
- DIANNE CHANEY (SECRETARY)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide quality, affordable childcare/early learning to families in the communities regardless of income. Operations ceased due to financial difficulties. Corporation is inactive due to litigation in process.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide year-round childcare and development programs for children ages 1 month through 6 years on a sliding scale based on each family's ability to pay. Nutritional meals were provided to all daily enrolled children. Operation ceased due to financial difficulties. Corporation is inactive due to litigation in process.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 40
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; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2,589.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 17.97; rating input score 95; 95th 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: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21.6% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.5% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- 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 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.