Ready for School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274898652
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Holland, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6168340515
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $976,726
- Expenses
- $884,335
- Assets
- $1,012,916
- Liabilities
- $150,314
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANGELA DELOST (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ANGELA DELOST (CEO): $108,029 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To increase access to early educational experiences through integrated community support, so all children enter kindergarten ready to learn and reach their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ready for school works to strengthen early childhood outcomes through collaboration, navigation of the early childhood system, and referrals to state and federal preschool programs. The help me grow care coordination team supported families through coordinated referrals. The organization created high-quality summer learning opportunities for incoming kindergarteners and caregivers through its kindergarten readiness camp, which has demonstrated statistically significant increases in early literacy and social-emotional readiness over 10 years. Through reach out and read, trusted healthcare providers integrated developmentally appropriate books and literacy-focused guidance into well- child visits. During the year, 242,114 well-child visits included books and related conversations. The organization also collaborated with ottawa area isd to develop an early childhood dashboard to identify childcare openings and connect families with resources. The organization maintained a statewide reach out and read advisory committee and contracted with the founding medical director.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.4%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $715.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.4% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $740K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $108K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.