Capistrano Connections Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201485148
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2016
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016
- Location
- San Juan Capistrano, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9494611667
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,832,033
- Expenses
- $29,292,172
- Assets
- $8,271,416
- Liabilities
- $7,463,631
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELAINE PAVLICH (PRESIDENT)
- DR RICHARD SAVAGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DR RICHARD SAVAGE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $159,031 total reported compensation
- FRANCI SASSIN (BUSINESS MANAGER): $107,582 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of California connections academy schools is to leverage 21st century education resources on behalf of students who need a morepersonalized approach to learning to maximize these students' potential and meet the highest performance standards. This mission is accomplished through a uniquely individualized learning program that combines the best in virtual education with real connections among students, family, teachers, and the community to promote academic and emotional success for every learner. The charter school program provides a high-quality, high-tech, high- interaction virtual "school without walls" that brings an accredited tuition free public educational program directly into the homes of students in grades k-12.
What it reported doing in 2016
A charter school providing educational opportunities to the surrounding community.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 1.8%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.9; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.1% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $159K · 7 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2011 to 2016
- 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.
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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.