ARS Holdings Inc DBA - Alexander Robertson School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881352361
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2126630196
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,660,757
- Expenses
- $2,277,288
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Brinton Parson (Head of School): $100,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ARS combines a traditional daily structure of scheduled academics and enrichment classes presented within an innovative, creative, and fun teaching framework. We emphasize excellence in academics while placing equal emphasis on exposing children to the arts, ethics, and physical education. We teach children to think critically, explore their creativity, and reason logically, stressing the value of both individual learning and collaboration.Since its conception, part of ARSs mission has been to welcome and embrace families of every configuration and background. We have always been and will continue to be committed to diversity, teaching students to be inclusive and to respect themselves and
What it reported doing in 2024
The full grade level education of our student body (grades Jrk through grade 5) in: ELA Writing, reading, spelling, grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, handwriting, poetry, public, speaking, debate, discussion. Math, Geography, Social Studies, Science, Wellness, Physical Education, Art, Music, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Coding, Library.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 75% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.9%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
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: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -37.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 36.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -32.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.9% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 12 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $100K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.