Ben Milam International Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842207081
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Midland, TX, USA
- Phone
- 4322407500
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $275,000
- Expenses
- $245,932
- Assets
- $96,889
- Liabilities
- $1,596
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BRENDA JOBES (Executive Dir.): $116,957 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ben milam international academy is committed to establishing a culture of support and achievement that is rooted in college readiness and embraces language and cultural diversity, holds all scholars to high expectations, and ensures progress in linguistic and academic skills in spanish and english.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ben milam international academy is a midland isd school partnership committed to producing bilingual, biliterate and sociocultural competent scholars who will excel in a globalized 21st century economy. Ben milam international academy opened its doors in the fall of 2019, serving pre-kindergarten and kindergarten scholars. Each year a grade level was added, until fully expanded to a school-wide dual language campus serving pre-kindergarten to fifth grade students. Scholars are fully immersed in an enriched curriculum taught in spanish and english adding french as a foreign language beginning in fourth grade. We have implemented a two-way dual language model with a 90% spanish and 10% english language allocation upon entry to our program. Each subsequent year, english instruction increases until students engage in 50/50 language allocation by the fourth grade. By the end of the fifth grade, ben milam international academy students will meet or exceed grade-level standards in both english and spanish.all ben milam international academy students have access to various avenues of technology to enhance their learning experience. Staff work collaboratively to establish a culture of high expectations by embedding the six-exceptional systems of no excuses university. Such systems foster a mindset that prepares students for college.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 45
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.3%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 54%; rating input score 54
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.6%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 47.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.5% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.3% of revenue deployed · 54% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.