Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Educational Program Inc

Overview

Mission

The purpose of this organization is to provide training to educators who wish to learn the waldorf system of education. We provide training in approved waldorf instruction. Our program for the academic year included rudolf steiner's life and times, theosophy, the evolution of consciousness, seven historical epochs, spatial dynamics, painting, speech and drama, eurhythmy, goethean science. We also provide classroom observational time for enrollees. In future academic years we will include advanced training in addition to the foregoing instruction. All training is given by certified waldorf instructors, assisted by artists and other professionals, at the chicago waldorf school campus. Enrollees, who currently number approximately forty, enter a three year program which will eventually result in their certification as waldorf instructors. Instruction is also available over the summer. The organization may also sponsor research by its faculty or students in matters suggeste by steiner's an

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 100% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 55
• Transparency & Controls: 90
• Accountability: 64
• Sustainability: 31
• Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 68.6% of revenue deployed · 50.9% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $44K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
• Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
• Schedules: 2 filed schedules
• Filing history: 6 filing years from 2012 to 2017
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• 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.

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• Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.