Beacon Hill Preparatory Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421624235
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Dallas, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9723297779
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,869,990
- Expenses
- $3,946,397
- Assets
- $2,209,437
- Liabilities
- $313,941
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Charnella Derry (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Charnella Derry (President & CEO): $137,835 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Beacon Hill supplements existing school systems and prepares students and families for success by providing reading and math tutoring, parent education, college preparation, and enrichment activities for students in Southern Dallas, Fort Worth, and surrounding communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Beacon Hill provides in-school math and reading tutoring for low-income PreK-8th grade students in public and charter schools across the Dallas/Fort Worth area and surrounding communities. Using the Gideon Curriculum, students receive two hours of tutoring per week per subject for 30 weeks in small groups (1:3 or 1:4 teacher/student ratio) within dedicated Learning Labs. All tutoring is provided by certified, degreed professionals who are part of our paid staff, ensuring high-quality instruction and fidelity to the Beacon Hill model. The program focuses on early intervention, primarily supporting Tier 3 (widespread intervention needed) and some Tier 2 (Targeted intervention needed) students. In 2024-25, we served over 1,348 students, with 90% progressing toward grade-level proficiency. The program also includes enrichment activities, incentives, and a Bilingual Supplemental Support initiative to best support diverse learners. This structured approach leads to measurable academic growth, with 9 out of 10 students improving their grades, test scores, and classroom behavior. Financial literacy is integrated through partnerships with the banking community, where industry professionals teach students and staff essential financial concepts. Additionally, each Learning Lab includes a Beacon Hill Store, where students earn Beacon Hill Bucks for attendance, participation, and academic progress. These can be used to purchase prizes, toys, and incentives donated by Toys for Tots and community partners. Additionally, 425 parents participated in Parent Academy, providing guidance on supporting their child's education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.