Parents At Countryside

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 202800184
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2019–2024
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
Location: Byron Center, MI, USA
Rating: 86
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Parent/Teacher Group

Reported finances

Revenue: $51,845
Expenses: $65,159
Assets: $42,146

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Francisco Ramirez (President)
Laurel Flythe (Vice President)

People named in this filing

Ian Matthews (Treasurer)
Francisco Ramirez (President)
Laurel Flythe (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Parents At Countryside is devoted to making a difference to the students, teachers and parents of Countryside Elementary School, Byron Center. We organize fundraisers and events throughout our school year to fund activities and events for our students. We assist with money for field trips, cultural arts assemblies, class room supplies, books for our library, to motivate and help our children? s education.

What it reported doing in 2024

Supporting programs at Countryside Elementary School

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 97
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 26
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -25.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 35; 35th 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: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $61K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 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.

High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.