Strategic Kids Collaborative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872040616
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Laguna Hills, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7207880886
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,738
- Expenses
- $30,552
- Assets
- $25,635
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Adam Brody (Interim Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Adam Brody (Interim Executive Director)
- Blake Hepburn (Treasurer)
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
Strategic Kids Collaborative is a nonprofit organization that creates fun and meaningful programs for kids. We offer activities like art, STEM programs, and interactive games that help children grow, build new skills, and develop confidence. We believe every child deserves enriching experiences, so we keep our programs free or low-cost to ensure everyone can participate. Because our mission is to serve children and families-not to make a profit-we operate as a tax-exempt organization.
What it reported doing in 2025
Obtained $34,900 in grant contributions to run low- to no-cost programming in Colorado and Washington for Spring 2025. Provided low- and no-cost programming in Colorado and Washington during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years. Programs included enrichment classes in STEM-related subjects such as Chess and LEGO, as well as arts programs like Cartooning and Origami, and athletic programs such as Sports. Grants and allocations were invoiced by partners in 2025 for 2024 programs and are not reflected in cash-basis accounting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -249.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -143.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -59.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.