Shared Learning Time Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873717764
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Florissant, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3149543949
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $534,643
- Expenses
- $286,070
- Assets
- $316,592
- Liabilities
- $8,660
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELISE PARK (President)
People named in this filing
- ELISE PARK (President)
- DASHAWN CARSON (Secretary)
- ALI GRIMSHAW (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Shared Learning Time, Inc. is to partner with homeschooling families in order to combine the benefits of instructor-led classroom experiences with the family's independent homeschooling goals.
What it reported doing in 2025
Core: Instructor-led learning time. Shared Learning Time, Inc. provides homeschooling families with the opportunity to outsource some specific coursework while maintaining complete autonomy of their legal homeschool requirements. Shared Learning Time, Inc. offers families a variety of courses to choose from in the context of a learning center. Families may select one or more courses for their child(ren) to attend. The Board of Directors is responsible for hiring the instructor staff. Courses are held on site at the learning center. The percentage of time allocated to this activity is 80 per cent of the day during which classes are held. These activities are funded by parent-paid tuition and fundraising activities. The vast majority of expenditures are allocated to facilitating Instructor-led classes and the necessary insurances and fees required to procure all Instructor and support staff, as well as a meeting location. This is a past, present, and planned activity. This activity furthers the educational and religious nature of Shared Learning Time, Inc. (the exempt purposes). Social Enrichment. Shared Learning Time, Inc. provides homeschooling families the opportunity to engage with other children. Peer to peer participation during classroom activities builds healthy social and collaborative skills, and by blending the variety of ages during both organized and free playtime, children benefit from supervised, multi-aged interaction. Program Instructors facilitate and supervise the social enrichment activities within the program. These activities occur throughout the day. The percentage of time allocated to this activity is 20 per cent of the day during which classes are held. These activities are funded by parent-paid tuition and fundraising activities. Social Enrichment does not require additional expenditures. This is a past, present, and planned activity. This activity furthers the educational and religious nature of Shared Learning Time, Inc. (the exempt purposes). Core classes occurr on Mondays and Wednesdays and include the following options: Math, Science, History, and ELA.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.8%; rating input score 43
- Program expense ratio: 80%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.5%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 114.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 137.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.8% of revenue deployed · 80% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $229K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.