Start School Later Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
460922466
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Severna Park, MD, USA
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and/or Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$132,157
Expenses
$215,179
Assets
$203,586

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Terra Ziporyn Snider (Executive Director)
  • Ann Gallagher (Board President)

People named in this filing

  • Terra Ziporyn Snider (Executive Director)
  • Maribel Ibrahim (Operations Director)
  • Ann Gallagher (Board President)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are a coalition of health professionals sleep scientists educators parents students and other concerned citizens dedicated to increasing public awareness about the relationship between sleep and school hours and to ensuring school start times compatible with health safety education and equity.

What it reported doing in 2025

Development strategy: Created marketing materials reached out to family foundations and philanthropists for grant funding and enhanced website and logo for clearer communication with potential funders. This is Year 1 of a two year Development Strategy.

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 97% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.6%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 43.3%; rating input score 43

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -62.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.6% of revenue deployed · 43.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $93K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.