St Paul's School
Overview
Mission
St. Paul's school is a fully residential academic community. In educating students to build purposeful lives in service to the greater good, st. Paul's school engages young people in a diverse, inclusive, and ethical community, dedicated to the pursuit of (see schedule o) excellence in character and scholarship and inspired by the beauty and spirit of our millville home.
What it reported doing in 2024
St. Paul's school founded the advanced studies program (asp) in 1958 to provide talented New Hampshire public and parochial high school risking seniors with challenging educational opportunities otherwise unavailable to them. Each summer, young men and women live on the st. Paul's school's campus for five and a half weeks. Students are immersed in a college-level curriculum and challenged to discover new ways of learning. Asp offers a wide variety of courses from shakespeare to astronomy, which thoroughly explore topics in several disciplines. In their time at asp, students become immersed in their subject of choice, setting them up for a lifelong understanding of the material. (see schedule o for continuation)additionally, all asp students have an opportunity to enhance their writing skills through compulsory interactive writing workshops.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 81% of its reported program work directly.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020222227
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Concord, NH, USA
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education
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 money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: Limited
- Public policy transparency: Limited
- Public financial transparency: Limited
- Impact reporting controls: Limited
- Public relationship transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 95.7%; rating input score 96; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: Limited
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.4%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 11.83; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $68.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 29 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link