Tacoma Day Care & Preschool Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910568709
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Tacoma, WA, USA
Phone
2536275671
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Child Day Care

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,044,188
Expenses
$973,604
Assets
$2,522,223
Liabilities
$68,683

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rosemary Totten (Executive Director)
  • Debbie Winskill (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Rosemary Totten (Executive Director): $68,202 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

In 1911, Tacoma Day Care and Preschool Association established the first preschool in Pierce County with the mission to provide quality, affordable child care. It has a state of the art Early Learning Center serving children fourteen months through pre-kindergarten, as well as an academically supportive school-age program for children to age twelve. We are a proud member agency of the United Way of Pierce County community service network and nationally accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, an honor held since 1997.

What it reported doing in 2025

The year 2025 was still an unpredictable wild ride for Tacoma Day. The Field of Early Childhood is rapidly expanding to meet the changing needs of today's children. Energized by this ever-changing field the staff of Tacoma Day have been taking advantage of the wealth of training materials available. Staff are successfully using their skills to further expand their inclusive classrooms. Tacoma day has always believed in Every Child Every day, now we have the tools to support us. The new protocol that have changed the way we do business are now simply how we do business.For Tacoma Day it is business as usual before and after school care and ECEAP comboned with our early learning program in both our preschool programs combined. One change is some of our children are choosing transitional kindergarten through the school district. This district program serves 4-year-old children.Some data for 2025 at Tacoma Day:* 114 children were served this year. More families need a part-time arrangement and with old tacoma Day ingenuity we were able to accomodate these families.* 5 children identified special needs with IEPs. The school district changed program delivery so that several of these children opted to remain at Tacoma Day in our ECEAP program. We hired additional staff so that each of our preschool teams now contain 4 staff members. This allows for staff to better individualize the program.* Staff conferece with parents helping them get services for their children connecting them with Child Find to develop IEPs, and other community resources.* Our population is also showing signs f change. We are shifting back to an almost 50 percent ratio of Working Connection families. We have noticed that all of our families are facing challenges - losing jobs, housing issues, just meeting daily needs.Our successess:* Our children grow up in a safe healthy learning environment sharing time and adventures with friends. Social emotional growth, so important, is our top priority. The number one item on the list for succeess in life.* Our outstanding food program is available to all. Nutrition, an essential ingredient to strong healthy lifestyle, continues. Our school age children check the menu daily. They know when they return from school, they have a hot lunch/snack waiting for them.* Everyday stress impacts our families more than ever. Parents have the normalcy they need for their children in our program.A great big Thank You to:* The staff of Tacoma Day for their strength and courage* The Board of Trustees for their support and encouragement* Our auditor who helped Tacoma Day navigate financial waters answering endless questions about new financial normal.* Our children whose eternal optimism, silly jokes and unending laughter keep everything in perpective.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 88% 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: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.3%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
  • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • 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: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.8%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.59; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.4% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.3% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $861K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.