Palos Verdes Hills Cooperative Nursery School

Overview

Mission

The purpose of the organization is the operation of a parent-participation nursery school.located on a 1 1/2 acre site, the school operates during eleven months of the year to provide supervised instruction and play for the member children. As an element of their own membership, one parent of each member family is required to participate on a regular basis in implementing and staffing, under the guidance and direction of the professional staff.the staff meet monthly with the parents who will be assisting to plan and elaborate on the curriculm. Staff are careful to model and demonstrate appropriate guidance techniques during the school day, and to encourage the assisting parents to observe these methods and, thereby, to modify, improve or confirm their own parenting skills.curricular emphasis is place on field trips and on incorporating into the program the participating parents' many special talents. Skills and interests. Thus, the children are enriched through exposure to diverse cult

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 83% 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

STRONG - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 79
• Transparency & Controls: 90
• Accountability: 70
• Sustainability: 60
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $256K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
• Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
• Schedules: 4 filed schedules
• Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2024
• 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.

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• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
• Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.