Kipp St Louis
Overview
Mission
Kipp is a high-performing, public charter school serving students in grades k-12. Kipp's mission is to inspire all students to develop the character and academic skills necessary to succeed at the high school and college level.
What it reported doing in 2024
Kipp's primary program service is to develop, in all of our students, the strong knowledge, skills, and character traits necessary to succeed in high quality high schools, colleges, universities, and the competitive global world beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010916759
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Headquarters
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $87.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.43; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $41.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $275K · 19 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2011 to 2024
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links