The Parents Club of Palo Alto and Menlo Park

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
943364431
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-T 2023
Location
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Phone
6505590476
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,024
Expenses
$14,586
Assets
$273,579

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lenia Dritsoula (Co-President)
  • Emily Chu (Co-President)

People named in this filing

  • Lenia Dritsoula (Co-President)
  • Emily Chu (Co-President)
  • Lisa Liu (Dir of Legal)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educate parents and young children

What it reported doing in 2024

General meetings and special sessions with local experts on parenting topics from infant sleep to kindergarten readiness. Preschool open house provides families an opportunity to investigate the rich collection of preschool and day care programs in the area. These events are open to the whole community and are announced in local newspapers. Monthly newsletters include a schedule of adult and children activities, club programs, announcements and informative columns. Children's activities are educational and fun outings for children and their parents, including family venues such as the palo alto children's museum and hidden villa farm. Active arts instruction for children and parents. Moms/dads nite out provides opportunities to meet other club parents for friendship and socializing. Play groups and babysitting coop offer opportunities for meeting other local parents and children. Web site and email contain information about activities and an email discussion list about issues related to parenting and families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 18.4%; rating input score 18

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1,324.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 18.76; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -25.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -17.8% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 18.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.