Willard Home & School Association
Legal name: Willard Hsa Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223596379
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Ridgewood, NJ, US
- Phone
- 2016702720
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $104,711
- Expenses
- $149,265
- Assets
- $25,966
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STACIE TARANTO (EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT)
- ERIN JACQUES FRANZESE (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CAROLINE HOFFMAN (PRINCIPAL VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARY SEPASSI (EXEC. VICE PRESIDENT & SECRETARY)
People named in this filing
- STACIE TARANTO (EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT)
- ERIN JACQUES FRANZESE (CO-PRESIDENT)
- CAROLINE HOFFMAN (PRINCIPAL VICE PRESIDENT)
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
The Willard HSA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the lives of our students, parents, and educators. We provide resources and encourage communication and involvement in our school and community at large. Our goal is to establish a close relationship between home and school by offering opportunities for all parents to be involved in their children’s elementary experience.
What it reported doing in 2024
Strengthening and giving back to willard community: we sponsor fun and educational family events to strengthen the bond between our school, our families, and our community, such as bingo nights, adult socials, family picnics, and much more! Through our willard cares initiative, we are able to assist willard families who might need temporary financial help. Through a variety of partnerships and events, we also attempt to impress upon students the importance of giving back to our community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -42.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $144K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.