Windy Acres for Preschoolers

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
770318333
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Soledad, CA, USA
Phone
8316780328
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions

Reported finances

Revenue
$59,388
Expenses
$62,036
Assets
$12,246
Liabilities
$1,724

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JANAE CASTRO (PRESIDENT)
  • EDITH WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JANAE CASTRO (PRESIDENT)
  • EDITH WHITE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • CLAUDIA LOPEZ (SECRETARY)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide preschool to the public.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization operates a preschool for the benefit of the general public. Approximately 25-30 childred are enrolled into the preschool from the ages of 2 1/2 to 5 years of age. The preschool helps the childred with social skills and learning abilities to ready them for upper education.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 24
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99.7%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 95.5%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 40.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -17.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99.7% of revenue deployed · 95.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $59K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.