Princeton Pto
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272445243
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Princeton, MN, USA
- Phone
- 7634822367
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Parent/Teacher Group
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $52,147
- Expenses
- $22,770
- Assets
- $42,811
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sara Ostenson (President)
- Melissa Lynch (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Sara Ostenson (President)
- Melissa Lynch (Vice President)
- Samantha Rittenour (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To partner parents and teachers to provide support to local students and schools.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided for teacher and para professional appreciation in the preschool, primary, intermediate, and middle schools. Supported 7 teachers to purchase supplies for their classrooms. Funded 3 field trips that benefitted around 225 students. Paid for Scholastic News monthly activities for around 650 students. Purchased refreshments for a school holiday concert. Purchased calming and sensory supplies for a high school movement room. Purchased dissection supplies for around 150 5th graders. Provided gift cards for a raffle to encourage parent participation in a school survey. Bought supplies for 45 kindergartners to make a Mother's Day activity. Purchased meal vouchers for the intermediate grades' Robotics team at their national tournament. Sponsored 10 students to attend a language camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 77
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 43%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.3%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.88; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 43% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $22K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.