The Growing Concern Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232078980
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Tannersville, PA, USA
Phone
5706292754
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$408,077
Expenses
$291,711
Assets
$337,096
Liabilities
$247,323

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JEANNE KUCZEK (ADMIN. DIR./PRESIDENT-TREA)
  • SHARON M POTTER (ED. DIR./VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHARON M POTTER (ED. DIR./VICE PRESIDENT): $51,600 total reported compensation
  • JEANNE KUCZEK (ADMIN. DIR./PRESIDENT-TREA): $47,820 total reported compensation
  • RAHEELA CHAUDHRY (TEACHER/BD. MEMBER): $23,736 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The growing concern, inc.'s mission is to provide an educational experience that will meet the children's individual needs and help them develop cooperative relationships, responsibility for themselves, and sensitivity towards others. We feel successful when the children exhibit creativity, self confidence, joy, consideration, initiative, competence, knowledge, and a love of learning. Every attempt is made to nurture the child's spiritual and intellectual needs within a caring community. The broadest and best education for our children is accomplished when the sense of community fostered in the classroom is extended to embrace each child's family. The child's experience is more fully intergrated as staff and parents work together to form a sense of community and support for one another.

What it reported doing in 2024

Providing preschool and elementary education to students enrolled at the school.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 52
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.2%; rating input score 49
  • Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
  • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 28.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.73; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 60.5%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.2% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $201K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.