Wild Lilac Child Development Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 451778609
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Portland, OR, USA
- Phone
- 5034732081
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,380,843
- Expenses
- $2,295,212
- Assets
- $726,950
- Liabilities
- $78,676
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Susannah Maynard (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Christopher Ward (Board Member)
- Reiko Igarashi (Board Member)
- Gabrielle Orfield (Board Member)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Wild Lilac Dev Community offers high quality, inclusive, culturally competent, accessible early childhood education, comprehensive family support, and educational opportunities for child development educators, social service professionals and other child development professionals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Early Childhood Care and Education-WLCDC provides full-day, child-centered and developmentally appropriate early childhood education for nearly 100 children from six weeks to six years of age. Wild Lilac operates six classrooms: younger infant(ages six weeks to twelve months); older infant (ages 12 months to 24 months), two toddler classrooms (ages 24-36 months); and two preschool classrooms (ages 3-6). WLCDC works closely with Multnomah Early Childhood Program to ensure it is meeting the needs of all children with identified special needs. Wild Lilac also works with private specialists at families request. Education at Wild Lilac is characterized by small class sizes, low student-teacher ratios, qualified and educated teachers, a language-rich environment to promote early literacy development, and respectful, engaging interactions between teachers and children. Using the principles of anti-bias education, Wild Lilac teachers guide the children in exploring their differences and similarities to foster positive identity development and to promote respect and understanding for all people.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.