Bryant & Stratton College
Legal name: Bryant & Stratton College Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844813183
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Orchard Park, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7162507500
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Higher Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $302,360,546
- Expenses
- $274,720,017
- Assets
- $238,683,286
- Liabilities
- $88,146,009
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID VADEN (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- ANNE LORIA (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID VADEN (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,028,291 total reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER GERACE (VP & CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $488,997 total reported compensation
- ANNE LORIA (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT): $461,480 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
For 170 years, Bryant & Stratton College has been meeting students where they are and helping them get ahead. Since 1854, we’ve been committed to providing students with a personalized, career-focused education that empowers them to succeed in a changing world. Founded in 1854, Bryant & Stratton College is one of the nation’s pioneers in career-focused education. Over our 170-year history, B&SC has continuously innovated and adapted, introducing new curricula, teaching methodologies, and ways of learning to better serve its students and meet the changing demands of the workplace. While much has changed over our history, our mission and commitment remain the same, to provide students with a personalized education experience and the practical knowledge and skills needed for career success. Historic black-and-white photo of a four-story brick building with ground-floor shops and...
What it reported doing in 2024
The college is an institution of higher education that prepares students for future success by teaching both career skills and life skills, including important intangibles like critical thinking, interpersonal skills, problem solving, team work, and time management. By providing these experiences our students will be able to thrive and reach their desired future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.3%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: 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: 9.1%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 62.3% of revenue deployed · 69.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $190.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 18 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $43.3M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.