Buxton Schoolinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042219425
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Williamstown, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4134583919
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,494,353
- Expenses
- $4,932,602
- Assets
- $5,725,584
- Liabilities
- $1,103,828
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA MEZZACAPPA (PRESIDENT)
- NANCY GLOWA (VICE PRESIDENT, CLERK)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN KALAPOS (CO-HEAD OF SCHOOL): $109,680 total reported compensation
- JOHN BARRENGOS THRU DECEMBER 2024 (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $98,928 total reported compensation
- MARGARITA FUENTES ALVARADO (TRUSTEE): $50,586 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At buxton, we meet each student where they are. We shape an education together, in an environment where the principles of progressive education can be lived every day. Here, experiences outside the classroom are as important as those inside it, learning is personal and collaborative, and students work together with teachers to be architects of their education and community. At buxton, we meet each student where they are. We shape an education together, in an environment where the principles of progressive education can be lived every day. Here, experiences outside the classroom are as important as those inside it, learning is personal and collaborative, and students work together with teachers to be architects of their education and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
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Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 67% for direct work, and 33% for grants.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 72.2%; rating input score 72; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 10.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 18 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $110K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.