Wee Care Christian Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261792274
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Myakka City, FL, United States
- Phone
- 941.322.6409
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $531,746
- Expenses
- $541,938
- Assets
- $12,073
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shanon Jones (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Marilyn Beasley (Director): $74,862 total reported compensation
- YVonne Colegrove (director): $49,185 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christian based childcare in Myakka City, FL, providing full day daycare for children starting at 6 weeks old through age 5, plus morning and after school care for elementary age children, with focused Bible study every day. Marilyn Beasley is a founding member of the Wee Care team. Opening its doors in June of 2008 in Myakka City, Florida. Marilyn is a established Level 2 Director- Florida League of Christian Schools (FLOCS). FLOCS has advocated and provided a voice for Christian schools in the development and sustainability within the school choice movement. A mother of 4 children herself with 9 grandchilden, Mariyln understands the importance of nurturing your childs faith with love and support. To reach out to Mariyln directly: 941.322.6409.
What it reported doing in 2025
Day care and after school care
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 90% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.9%; rating input score 13; 13th 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: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $542K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.