Deutscher Schulverein Washington Dc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540740278
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
- Location
- Potomac, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3017673800
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,022,640
- Expenses
- $18,136,540
- Assets
- $17,761,352
- Liabilities
- $3,065,005
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- GEORGE S DEELEY (BUSINESS DIRECTOR): $218,488 total reported compensation
- BEATE MAHIOUS (DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS): $160,836 total reported compensation
- JOHN GREEN (DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES): $155,020 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 german school Washington dc offers its students in preschool through grade 12 a challenging, multi-lingual and cross-cultural learning environment, as well as a strong community committed to social and personal responsibility, integrity, diversity, respect, and autonomy. Its teaching philosophy incorporates technological, scientific, cultural, social and pedagogical developments to help students meet high expectations, reach their fullest potential and become mature global citizens.
What it reported doing in 2024
The school is a coeducational school which provides bilingual education to over 500 students in grades preschool through grade 12.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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
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: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd 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: 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $218K · 18 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $595K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.