School of Mary - Montessori
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452350683
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152504006
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $196,878
- Expenses
- $174,579
- Assets
- $119,231
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LYNDA BAKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TRAVIS FUNSETH (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LYNDA BAKER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ANGELA JULANDER (SECRETARY)
- TRAVIS FUNSETH (PRESIDENT)
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
Teaching philosophy of maria montessori
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide a catholic montessori approach to education, employing the teaching philosophies of maria montessori and catechesis of the good shepherd.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 63% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.6%; rating input score 8
- Program expense ratio: 8.6%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 60% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.6% of revenue deployed · 8.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 8/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.