The Neighborhood School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472651979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cheyenne, WY, USA
- Phone
- 3076323339
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,213,429
- Expenses
- $1,240,242
- Assets
- $49,107
- Liabilities
- $60,237
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KENDRA REITSMA (PRESIDENT)
- MAUREEN GIORDANO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MAUREEN GIORDANO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $60,780 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the neighborhood school is to be a leader in early childhood education in laramie county, wy. The preschool is interested in the whole child and strives to provide each child a safe and enriched environment to freely explore, develop, and learn at his or her own pace cognitively, physically, socially, and emotionally.
What it reported doing in 2025
The neighborhood school provides full- and part-time high quality care and education to infants and children from six-weeks old to age five, and their families who live and/or work in laramie county, Wyoming. They also provide supplemental care for elementary-aged students. It is open year-round, monday through friday. The preschool views children as strong and capable individuals who can expand their knowledge through interaction with materials and others. It provides a safe and enriched environment to its children, allowing them the opportunity to be free to explore, develop, and learn at their own pace. To that end, the preschool provides an emergent curriculum, which is simply a curriculum that "emerges" from a particular group of teachers, administrators, families, and children based on their questions and growing understanding. Emergent curriculum is flexible, responsive, and collaborative. It makes children's learning and teacher's thinking visible. The preschool values collaborations in the community to offer and provide opportunities for its children to enrich and expand their learning environments. The preschool values reflective practices in supporting and educating its staff.
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
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: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.23; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.9% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.