Roots and Wings Montessori Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472750851
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8167416940
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $180,608
- Expenses
- $187,549
- Assets
- $7,364
- Liabilities
- $47,331
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- EVAN HAYAKAWA (ADMIN ASSIST)
- KRISTY YAGER (EXECUTIVE DI)
- LISHCHKAYA ESKRIDGE (HEAD OF SCHO)
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 offer Kansas city's only montessori program for middle and high school students designed to teach students the power of self and to contribute to their community, while developing global responsibility, leadership, empathy, self-awareness, and the ability to question and challenge. The school focuses on real world learning on a 10-acre campus with a fully functioning farm, run by the students.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our classes blend rigorous academics with real-world projects that integrate multiple disciplinescollaboration, problem-solving, financial literacy, and communicationwhile fully meeting academic and graduation requirements, including act preparation. At farm school kc, enrichment is an essential part of our montessori approachoffering students opportunities to explore their interests, develop life skills, and discover new passions. Students participate in electives several times a week, which often grow directly from their own curiosities and ideas. These courses may include practical life skills such as cooking, as well as physical activities like ballet, yoga, or martial arts. Our off-campus equine program at little raven farm offers hands-on learning and connection with animals, while creative expression wednesdays invite students to explore the arts through sewing, painting, music, and other forms of creative work. We also extend enrichment beyond the classroom with college and trade school visits, as well as career visits from community professionals helping students see real-world pathways for their interests and talents. Out of our previous graduates, 33% went to college, 33% went to a technical school and 33% joined the workforce.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.3%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 82.2%; rating input score 82
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.8%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.43; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.3%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -42.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.3% of revenue deployed · 82.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $154K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.