French American School of Silicon Valley
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770315997
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4087460460
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,900,365
- Expenses
- $5,827,194
- Assets
- $18,560,696
- Liabilities
- $11,208,523
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JUDY JONES (BOARD PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARTINE TRUSZ (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $254,279 total reported compensation
- NICOLE NGUYEN (ACCOUNTING MANAGER): $176,803 total reported compensation
- TIFFANY HARDEGEN (ASSISTANT HOS (THRU 8/25)): $165,501 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide our students with an academically excellent bilingual and bicultural education which empowers them to succeed in both the french and american education systems and to fully realize their potential as global citizens. (see sch o for continuation)the core values that guide our work and reflect what we strive to foster in our students include: critical thinkingacademic excellencerespectlife-long learningin support of our mission and values we are committed to:- creating a cooperative, interactive, and challenging learning environment- attracting and developing high-quality dedicated staff who focus upon and meet the needs of students as individuals- integrating our french and english programs beginning in the preschool years to meet the language needs of students with diverse linguistic backgrounds
What it reported doing in 2024
The school provides independent co-educational services to approximately 191 students offering bilingual (english/french) education for pre-school, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary grades and middle school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.1%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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; 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: 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: 1.2%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.19; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.1% of revenue deployed · 63.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $254K · 14 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 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: 5 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.