Clv Strong Start Academy Elementary Schools Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881401328
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7024630222
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,331,499
- Expenses
- $4,028,740
- Assets
- $5,700,072
- Liabilities
- $3,620,215
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LORNA JAMES-CERVANTES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MIRIAM BENITEZ (PRINCIPAL): $184,743 total reported compensation
- FLORENTINO MORA-GARCIA (ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL): $149,827 total reported compensation
- YUSTA FLORES (TEACHER): $148,624 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of strong start academy elementary school (ssaes) is to provide equitable, high-quality academics as we prepare our bilingual, civic-minded thinkers to maximize their potential in their community and the world. Saes is committed to building a culture of high academic achievement for all students. All children will engage in dual language education that supports and embraces the development of english and spanish while honoring their home languages and cultures. Ssaes will offer rich linguistic and cultural education that values and develops families' cultural heritages and home languages as assets. Providing an enriched multilingual education combined with high expectations will help students attain their greatest potential, and close the achievement gap while preparing them for success in the 21st century.
What it reported doing in 2024
Clv strong start is a dual-language elementary charter school in las vegas. Their goal is to gift all their students with a higher quality education that also focuses on producing bilingual and biliterate learners in english and spanish, giving them twice the knowledge, educational value and success in their future.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 61% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: 7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 33.7% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 52.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.4% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $185K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.