Speech and Language Center of Northern Virginia Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
540993569
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Mclean, VA, USA
Phone
7033562833
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$802,187
Expenses
$882,106
Assets
$424,833
Liabilities
$2,173

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

10 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • AARON HARISON (PRESIDENT)
  • BRYNN O'REILLY (VICE PRESIDENT (END JULY 2025))

Highest reported compensation

  • GABRIELA MORAN (DMPS DIRECTOR): $77,290 total reported compensation
  • CRISTINA BELL (SLCNV DIRECTOR): $74,723 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

An important mission of dolley madison preschool is for our staff and parents to work together to foster friendships, self-confidence, love of learning, and kindness in our young children. As co-directors, we work together to create a cohesive program to support all children attending dolley madison. The directors, teachers, assistant teachers, and therapists truly love teaching and helping little minds and hearts explore, expand, and become ready to enter elementary school. We accept children with varied strengths and weaknesses and offer support services to children who need them. The children are wonderful peer models for each other they teach and learn from each other about different learning styles and about being kind. We are committed to working with our staff and families to support this mission.

What it reported doing in 2024

Dolley madison preschool offers programs for the three years before kindergarten, serving children from 2 to five years old. Our curriculum is based upon play as the fundamental learning instrument for young children, with an environment structured to ensure that play is both fun and instructional.our organization is unique in that we have both an outpatient therapy program (individual and small group therapy) and our inclusive developmental preschool program with school-based therapy services. Our clients can be enrolled in one or more of our programs. Speech and language services serves a variety of clients with speech and language needs.dolley madison preschool summer camp offers exceptional days full of exciting projects, games, music, art, imaginative and outdoor play, and special events. Please note that 2 year olds may attend summer camp if they are ready to be at school and enrolled at dmps for the upcoming school year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 90% 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

STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 69
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.6%; rating input score 98
  • Program expense ratio: 88.8%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: -10%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 17.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.6% of revenue deployed · 88.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $783K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 10 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.