Agile Learning Center
Legal name: Agile Learning School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262922937
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Phone
- 2125332826
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $275,351
- Expenses
- $245,411
- Assets
- $97,660
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICOLE SHUGAR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RYAN SHOLLENBERGER (DIRECTOR): $45,960 total reported compensation
- ABIGAIL OULTON (DIRECTOR): $31,683 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Agile Learning Center is an accredited, high-engagement microschool on the North Side of Central Park. In our 25 student community, self-directed thinkers, project-based creators, and future leaders develop the agency and real-world competencies that will empower them to thrive and build meaningful lives in a rapidly changing world.
What it reported doing in 2024
Agile learning center provides an age-mixed school for self directed learners.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 96.8%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.9%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.4; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 96.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $238K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2016 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.