Sonflower Christian Preschool Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 830813784
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Durango, CO, USA
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $37,974
- Expenses
- $66,915
- Assets
- $2,793
- Liabilities
- $7,211
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jackson Eubank (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Loreta Beam (Member): $23,063 total reported compensation
- Tamara Eubank (Director): $11,417 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sonflower Christian Preschool exists to serve the Durango area by providing a Christian-based, high-quality preschool program that partners with families to educate the whole child- soul, mind, and body in a loving environment.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sonflower Christian Preschool operates a Preschool Program that operates from August through the end of May. This past year we operated a Friday Funday which ran from February 2025 through May 2025. It was a science based curriculum with an emphasis on exploration in the outdoors. We provided two summer programs that ran for three weeks in June and July. Students studied biomes and got to go on many field trips to learn more about our environment. In August we began our school year program. It has a current classroom capacity of 15 students per day. Some of our students are part-time so we serve more than 15 families total. Our curriculum includes music exploration, academic preparation along with the outdoor emphasis. Cooking with the students has been a new addition that has been a hit with the students as they explore new skills and flavors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 54
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.02 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: -76.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.58; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 51.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -112.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $23K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.