Playmates Pre-school and Child-care Centers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550742839
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Huntington, WV, USA
- Phone
- 3049081230
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,726,531
- Expenses
- $6,895,946
- Assets
- $21,083,108
- Liabilities
- $2,163,084
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN CHRISTIAN (PRESIDENT/MEMBER)
- JEANETTE BARKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/(NON-ME)
Highest reported compensation
- JEANETTE BARKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/(NON-ME): $112,753 total reported compensation
- ROGER BARKER (CFO/(NON-MEMBER)): $84,110 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER SPANGLER (ADMIN.(NON-MEMBER)): $83,534 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Playmates preschool and child-care centers, inc. Is a leading provider of high quality care and education services for all children and their families. Playmates shows they care enough to make a difference by demonstrating the following values: customer service, all-inclusive, respect, education, safe, secure.
What it reported doing in 2024
During the year playmates served the following number of meals for all programs combined. Breakfasts 49,798; lunches 57,473; snacks 47,779; dinners 241; at-risk snacks 28,235 and at-risk dinners 52,374. Totalmeals served for 2024 equal 235,900.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 47
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th 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: 40%; rating input score 40; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.06; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.8% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $113K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.