South Dakota Association for the Education of Young Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460371120
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Box Elder, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6055195147
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $198,931
- Expenses
- $273,724
- Assets
- $52,699
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JANESSA BIXEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KEVIN NELSON (PRESIDENT)
- KAY CUTLER (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
- JODI BUTZER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JESS GROMER (PAST PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JANESSA BIXEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KEVIN NELSON (PRESIDENT)
- KAY CUTLER (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
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
Sdaeyc promotes high-quality care and early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sdaeyc promotes high-quality care and early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children. This is accomplished by: (1) providing professional development opportunities for educators in the state of South Dakota, including the early childhood education conference, sioux falls wow conference, and power hour online trainings.(2) advocating for early childhood education by participating in the early learner South Dakota activities, the early learner summit, the child care business collaborative, the child care taskforce, and the children's day at the capitol.(3) working with communities using the national league of cities tool to assess and support communitiies so all children thrive.(4) providing support for sdaeyc members through chapter meetings, monthly community of practice meetings, community events, and leadership development training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.
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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 65.8%; rating input score 66
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: -37.6%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.9%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -23.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 65.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $180K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.