Babcock Neighborhood School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371842600
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Babcock Ranch, FL, USA
- Phone
- 2395673043
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,752,677
- Expenses
- $17,775,904
- Assets
- $74,279,316
- Liabilities
- $74,105,409
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT KENNY (PRESIDENT)
- JENNIFER LANGUELL (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SHANNON TREECE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SHANNON TREECE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $145,282 total reported compensation
- HEATHER TACK (PRINCIPAL): $104,415 total reported compensation
- AMANDA SANFORD (PRINCIPAL): $101,002 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Located in the heart of Americas first solar-powered town, BNS offers a place-based environmentally focused greenSTEAM education program that integrates science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics within a thoughtfully provided holistic learning environment. STEAM requires intentional connections among and between standards, assessments, and lesson design while integrating related standards across disciplines - allowing students to demonstrate mastery of subjects.
What it reported doing in 2024
Located in the heart of Americas first solar-powered town, BNS offers a place-based environmentally focused greenSTEAM education program that integrates science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics within a thoughtfully provided holistic learning environment. STEAM requires intentional connections among and between standards, assessments, and lesson design while integrating related standards across disciplines - allowing students to demonstrate mastery of subjects. By focusing on local landscape, history, culture, and context, learning at BNS takes on specificity and moves from the abstract to the concrete, engaging students with an environment that encourages interactions with, and exploration of, the world around them. The sustainability and conservation principles of Babcock Ranch provide opportunities for hands-on, project-based learning about nature, health and renewable energy with a STEAM focus.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 73% 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
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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.18; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.