Rhode Island Association for the Education of Young Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 050445204
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Warwick, RI, USA
- Phone
- 4017396100
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,290,070
- Expenses
- $6,161,965
- Assets
- $2,293,521
- Liabilities
- $1,552,628
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KHADIJA LEWIS KHAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARTHA DONOVAN (PRESIDENT)
- LISA HILDEBRAND (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LISA HILDEBRAND (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $120,173 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Each and every child thrives and learns in a society dedicated to ensuring they reach their full potential.riaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.Rhode Island aeyc is the state affiliate of the national association for the education of young children (naeyc). Rhode Island aeyc and naeyc are dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for young children.
What it reported doing in 2024
The teach early childhood program provides opportunities for child care workers to complete higher education course work in early childhood education while providing sponsoring childcare programs an opportunity to develop their workforce. This unique scholarship program may help child care workers advance their career and role in the profession by pursuing a degree and higher education opportunities in the field of early childhood education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.1% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.