Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School
Legal name: Cristo Rey San Jose High School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462594689
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Jose, CA, USA
- Phone
- (408) 293-0425
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,027,776
- Expenses
- $22,185,509
- Assets
- $49,942,849
- Liabilities
- $16,587,300
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SILVIA SCANDAR MAHAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SILVIA SCANDAR MAHAN (PRESIDENT): $293,444 total reported compensation
- DAMONE JORDAN (CFO): $201,808 total reported compensation
- CELINE SCHMIDEK (VP, ADVANCEMENT): $193,098 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cristo Rey San José Jesuit High School opened in August 2014 to provide a Jesuit, Catholic, college preparatory education for underserved students of demonstrated financial need in Silicon Valley.
What it reported doing in 2024
Cristo rey san jose is a college-preparatory high school serving low-income families of all faiths in silicon valley, with students who are primarily in the first-generation in their families to attend college. Since families are charged minimal tuition, the cost of operating the school and the corporate work study program is supported through grants, philanthropic support, event fundraising, and fees paid by work study partners. Through rigorous academics, work study internships, and wraparound services such as social-emotional counseling and extracurricular activities, students develop the skills and competencies needed to succeed in college and beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 60% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.25; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $293K · 31 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $760K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.