Prepare Kids for Life

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843748829
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Port Hueneme, CA, USA
Phone
8055007603
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,480
Expenses
$92,874
Assets
$31,299

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JUNE SALIN (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JUNE SALIN (PRESIDENT)
  • SUSAN COOPER (BOARD MEMBER)
  • TONY PECKHAM (BOARD MEMBER)

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 the world's children with values and life skills needed to achieve emotional, social, and academic success through innovative learning programs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Guide each child to design a life of self-esteem, empathy and creative expression emboldening them to reach across culture, find common values in differences to realize a brighter future. Through army headquarter we worked with army garrison youth centers - fort sill, Georgia; fort know, Kentucky; fort hamilton, ny; fort stewart, Georgia; fort leavenworth, Kansas. We trained staff and they taught the manadoob learning system to children ranging in age from 5-12. In addition, we worked with international army garrison sites including usag rheinland-pflaz, usag beneluz-shape, and usag daegu, korea. Camp fire los angeles/long beach, a youth development organization established in 1925 to empower young people of all backgrounds, began their pilot program at three of their 13 afterschool program sites. They are implementing both age groups of the manadoob learning system reaching children 5-12. Chisipite junior school in harare, zimbabwe is working with the social emotional learning system to empower young girls to express themselves in a society that undervalues the importance of women. The goal is to reach children in additional school environments and to include boys who are raised with the expectation to suppress their emotions so they don't develop healthy communication and coping skills. We continue discussions with several other nonprofits both domestic and international to explore potential partnership opportunities to support their efforts in helping the children they reach.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% 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

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: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 20
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -44%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 25; 25th 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: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.