Dedham Country Day School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042106704
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dedham, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7813290850
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,582,296
- Expenses
- $17,259,979
- Assets
- $47,385,407
- Liabilities
- $14,305,555
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ASHLEY SHIH (TRUSTEE/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ALLISON WEBSTER (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $560,658 total reported compensation
- ROBERT SANTRY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $294,858 total reported compensation
- HASEL PATEL (DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES): $219,673 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Dcd is proud to offer an educational experience that:1. Provides to each child a unique educational balance of challenging academics, arts, and athletics2. Embraces an inclusive interdependent community of students, teachers, and parents that fosters trust and encourages children to take risks3. Creates independent, resilient, lifelong learners through engaging, developmentally based teaching designed to meet varied learning styles 4. Inspires students to become caring, ethical members of the larger world by emphasizing thoughtful citizenship and respect for self and others.
What it reported doing in 2024
The school is a private co-educational institution serving primary, lower and middle school students through grade eight. The student body is approximately 310 students. It also provides an eight week summer day camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 83% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 7.1%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.75; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.8% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $561K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.