Lighthouse Montessori

“Karissa and jeremy lightsmith are married.”

“The parents of the current students vote one parent to serve a one year term as the parent representative. The parent representative brings any parent concerns to the board and is a voting member.”

“Head of school and treasurer review the 990 and email a copy to the full board before filing.”

“Laura mitchell, ramsey ness, diana spedding looked at local montessori head of schools salaries from public records as well as independently gathered information of head of school salaries for montessori heads of school nationally before approving karissa's salary for head of school. The descision was recorded in the board meeting notes.”

“On the school website and in the parent documents, the school says these documents are availabe to anyone upon request.”

“Please waive or abate any penalty for late filing an exempt organizations for the following reasonable causes. We believed that we timely filed our return. The return was filed late for reasons beyond our control. We will not let this happen again. This penalty will be a significant burden for our small organization and damage our ability to complete our charitable mission. We are a small nonprofit charity with an all-volunteer board. The board composition changes from time to time. None of our board members are tax professionals and we engaged an office administrator to handle all federal tax matters. We relied on our administrator for the timely filing of our return. Our administrator told us that the return was filed. We did not discover the return was not filed until after he left our employment. We immediately engaged a tax professional to prepare the missing return. We were not aware of the error and it was beyond our control. We have not filed late before and we promise to not let it happen again. This penalty will have a substantial negative effect on our small organization and our charitable programs. Waiver or abatement of the penalty will not negatively impact the government.”