Gompers Preparatory Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270500180
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, US
- Phone
- (619) 263-2171
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,136,325
- Expenses
- $21,816,279
- Assets
- $17,267,043
- Liabilities
- $5,123,306
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JANE FIRPO-LEVERSON (CHIEF OF STAFF): $223,183 total reported compensation
- VINCENT RIVEROLL (SUPERINTENDENT/SECRETARY/DIRECTOR): $197,982 total reported compensation
- IVETTE LIMON (CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER): $188,654 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 a rigorous, college-preparatory education that empowers students to succeed in college and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
Gpa operates a public charter school offering high-quality education to students in grades 6-12. Gpa is committed to serving students with low-income backgrounds who may be the first student in their families to attend college and designing an educational and social program that will allow all students access to a college pathway. The school draws the majority of its students from southeastern san diego neighborhoods. Gpa seeks to provide a high quality college preparatory educational option to the gompers community and other students who are under-represented in colleges and university settings. For the year ended june 30, 2025, gpa served approximately 1,175 students in grades 6-12.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,765.53 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 14th 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: -3.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $223K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.