St Georges Child Care Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475372350
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- York Harbor, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2077030113
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $363,922
- Expenses
- $390,688
- Assets
- $55,844
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kayla Brewer (Executive Director)
- Shannon Murray (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Shannon Murray (Executive Director): $45,568 total reported compensation
- Kayla Brewer (Executive Director): $22,992 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Time of Wonder Early Learning Center is committed to providing quality, affordable, developmentally nourishing infant, preschool, and toddler programs and support for working families.
What it reported doing in 2024
In 2024, we remained deeply committed to our mission of providing affordable, high-quality early childhood education and care to families in need. With 20% of our children supported by childcare vouchers, we ensured that every childregardless of their familys economic situationhad access to the care, support, and opportunities they deserve. One of our top priorities was making sure all children received nourishing, balanced meals every day. By providing breakfast, lunch, and snacks on-site, we helped ensure that no child goes hungry and that every child has the energy and nutrition they need to learn, grow, and thriveregardless of their households ability to afford healthy food. Our community partnerships played a vital role in supporting not just our children, but their families as well. Through collaboration with local organizations, we helped connect families to critical resources such as food assistance, clothing, and developmental services for children. These connections ensured that families facing challenges had access to the help they needed. Additionally, community members regularly visited our center to provide enriching, hands-on experiences that brought joy and learning to our classrooms. We also expanded our focus on social-emotional learning, working with community organizations to help children build self-awareness, resilience, and strong interpersonal skills. These efforts supported not just academic readiness, but overall well-being. Further, we deepened our culture of sustainability by involving children in caring for our vegetable garden, teaching them about food, responsibility, and the environment. Clothing drives throughout the year supported families and reinforced the values of sharing and community care.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.7%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -7.4%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 28.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $382K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.