Caliber Public Schools
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461219795
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Pablo, CA, US
- Phone
- 4158604963
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,348,928
- Expenses
- $37,045,625
- Assets
- $75,144,019
- Liabilities
- $44,973,971
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TERENCE JOHNSON (CEO)
- MARKUS MULLARKEY (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- TERENCE JOHNSON (CEO): $322,954 total reported compensation
- MARKUS MULLARKEY (PRESIDENT): $233,197 total reported compensation
- RACHAEL WEINGARTEN (CHIEF OF SCHOOLS): $194,726 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Caliber believes all of our students will become academically college ready, grow in their emotional intelligence, become critical thinkers, and agents of change.
What it reported doing in 2024
Caliber provides every graduate with real world skills they need to succeed through college, career and life. Caliber creates a safe and supportive environment so that students can engage in rigorous learning and develop the skill set to be critical thinkers who then become agents of change in their communities and world. The school served approximately 1,945 students in school year 2024-2025 for 181 instructional days.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 96% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,475.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 8.2%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.03; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 87.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $323K · 14 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $879K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.