Wyoming Valley Montessori Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231729715
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Kingston, PA, USA
- Phone
- 5702883708
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,647,385
- Expenses
- $1,492,866
- Assets
- $2,835,768
- Liabilities
- $1,133,047
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HUSSEIN KAZIMI (PRESIDENT)
- LORI MURPHY (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JUSTIN KLEINHEIDER (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $67,638 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is "inspiring children who will change the world." the school, together with its families, builds the foundation for a lifetime of learning. We do this by providing a respectful montessori environment that supports children's natural desire to learn, guiding them to fulfill their potential for intellectual, social, and ethical development.while our families are diverse in their ethnicity, socio-economic levels, religious backgrounds, and professional and personal interests, we are linked by certain shared values, chief among them being the belief that a montessori education is the best possible for our children.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing a montessori education to children from the toddler to sixth grade.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 74.7%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $124.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.9; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 74.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.