De La Salle Education Center

What it reported doing in 2024

Delasalle education center seeks to address the significant life barriers of Kansas city's most underserved urban youth seeking life-long success through a personalized and rigorous course of study, holistic network services and workforce development. Since its inception, delasalle has based its program model on three primary ingredients for student success: (1) academic classes that are small, rigorous and personalized, (2) holistic support services such as mental health therapy that provides on-site interventions and address students' life barriers and (3) workforce development training that is integrated into everyday learning like through delasalle's award-winning printing program. Most recently, delasalle also serves the students housed in the jackson county juvenile detention center. Delasalle has served more than 12,000 students. Nearly all these young people have experienced significant success while enrolled at delasalle, as measured through multiple variables. These include student and graduate satisfaction, enriched sense of student hope, academic gains, attendance gains, increased retention in school, improved graduation rates and evidence of career and post-secondary success. From its founding, delasalle has employed a comprehensive and individualized approach to help young people. More than any other characteristic of the program's effectiveness, students have consistently reported deep satisfaction in receiving such personalized and holistic services. The belief in the value of delasalle's services on the part of its student body, and the desire to remain in delasalle even in the face of sometimes overwhelming personal and familial problems, has been, and continues to be, the foundational element for all student success. Reports of student satisfaction were instrumental in the dissemination of delasalle's program model throughout the country from 1989 to 1993. At the time, the united states department of education found delasalle to be "a program of convincing effectiveness" that improved student self-esteem and satisfaction and funded its replication and dissemination in over seventy sites during that period.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 73.5%; rating input score 74
• Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
• Fundraising efficiency: $147.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings

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: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Missing
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -2.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings