Regina Coeli Child Development Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720680604
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Robert, LA, US
- Phone
- (985) 318-8800
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,401,665
- Expenses
- $22,436,272
- Assets
- $10,152,067
- Liabilities
- $1,392,851
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARTIN HILDRA (PRESIDENT)
- TOWLE SANDRA (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBINSON JOSALYN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBINSON JOSALYN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $176,693 total reported compensation
- FLAD SANDRA (DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS OPERA): $116,814 total reported compensation
- WILLIAMS DAWN (DIRECTOR OF CENTER OPERATIONS): $103,420 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Regina Coeli is to provide the highest quality of service to children and families through a community team effort based on the question: “Is it good for children?”
What it reported doing in 2024
U.s. Department of health and human services head start program to improve educational and economic opportunities for approximately 1,700 children & their families. The organization operates 21 head start and early head start programs in a five parish region in southeast Louisiana.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 99% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.8%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $13,315.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.8%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 92.8% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $177K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $104K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.