Academy Del Sol
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263947979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 5207897731
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,962,315
- Expenses
- $8,297,563
- Assets
- $17,348,884
- Liabilities
- $18,761,435
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBRAH FIEGEL (Vice President)
- Regina Chavez (President)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBRAH FIEGEL (Vice President): $28,660 total reported compensation
- Regina Chavez (President): $16,467 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Academy Del Sol's mission is to provide a rigorous and superior academic, social and behavioral education for dedicated and commited students regardless of scioeconomic status, race or ethnicity. This education will instill students with the essentials of academic knowledge in order to compete and be productive member of our society.
What it reported doing in 2024
The school provides educational services in Tucson, Arizona to students in kindergarten through eighth grades.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.5%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.09; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.08; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.5% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $29K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.