Belmont Hill School Inc
Overview
Mission
Belmont Hill School educates boys in mind, body, and spirit to develop men of good character. Our community encourages and challenges students to discover and pursue passions, seek excellence and face adversity with resilience. We cultivate critical thinking and creativity, teamwork and competition, hard work and reflections, tradition and innovation. Valuing our differences and working together, we embrace camaraderie, compassion, and service to others. Our school strives to instill in each boy ethical judgment, a sense of common humanity, and lifelong love of learning.
What it reported doing in 2024
Educational institutions and related activities: Belmont Hill School's mission is to educate boys in mind, body, and spirit. Our environment of both challenge and support emphasizes strong moral values, honest effort, and responsibility for oneself and community. Valuing difference, Belmont Hill welcomes students from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences. Through shared commitment to the classroom, playing field, studio, and stage, students and teachers forge special bonds. Respecting tradition yet alive to innovation, our structured and rigorous program provides students with clear expectations and consistent encouragement, a framework for growth that honors creativity, teamwork, and competition. Belmont Hill helps students to develop clear thinking and lifelong love of learning; to become sensitive and responsive to the complexities of modern society; to gain the skills, values, and courage to face the future with confidence; to embrace, both now and in later life, a spirit of working together to better the world. Belmont Hill School gives its students a strong, traditionally defined education, in a balanced, well rounded environment. The value of its core curriculum seems to have increased with time. The school's insistence on this traditional framework of excellence, in many ways simple and straightforward, gives the curriculum distinction, and continues to be its first principle in planning for the future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042103870
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Belmont, MA, USA
- Rating
- 80
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and the filing reports few safeguards for setting executive pay.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 98
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 75.8%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- 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: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 51st 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: 37.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 6.48; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 75.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 35 of 36 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $34.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $959K · 43 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 47 of 48 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link