Senate Employees' Child Care Center

What it reported doing in 2024

The senate employees child care center is designed to provide a comprehensive and highly individualized program that fosters the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth of every child enrolled in the program. Children are offered age-appropriate learning opportunities as described in the centers curriculum. Parents are expected to participate in the ongoing activities of the center and to collaborate with the staff in the operation of the center. The senate employees child care center is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization governed by a board of directors. Members of the board of directors are elected by the membership of the corporation to serve staggering two-year terms. Generally, members of the board are also parents of children enrolled in the program. Because the center is a non-profit and parent-governed organization, it is naturally oriented to the best interests of the community of children it serves. The goal of the center is to assure childrens daily exposure to a safe, nurturing, enriching, and age-appropriate environment. To assure these goals are met, the center uses as guidelines the standards provided by its accrediting body, the national academy of early childhood program, a division of the national association for the education of young children (naeyc). The center originally became accredited in 1989 and was the first center in Washington, dc, to receive accreditation. The center has been continuously accredited since that time. Our program philosophy, curriculum, staff, structure, and governance are critical components in the quality of the program. However, that is not our only resource. We turn to each other - professionals with varying levels of experience and varied talents, and to the parents with their extensive array of experiences - to continually evaluate and enrich our program.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 94%; rating input score 94
• Program expense ratio: 89.1%; rating input score 89
• Fundraising efficiency: $206.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -5.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.38; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings