Good Shepherd School for Children
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 430955225
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3144690606
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,273,216
- Expenses
- $1,413,796
- Assets
- $1,895,463
- Liabilities
- $196,832
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Daryl Rothman (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Daryl Rothman (President): $92,586 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Helping children of all abilities reach their potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pediatric therapy services: Our Pediatric Therapy services provide year-round physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and developmental therapy. The services are provided for children who have special needs or delays, ages six weeks to eighteen years, who are students in our early childhood classrooms, are outpatients, and/or are home visit clients. Students served have a variety of special needs including autism, down syndrome, spina bifida, learning disabilities, speech/language disorders and various development delays. Most of the children have multiple special needs. Our pediatric therapy program expands into the community to focus on family support and early childhood intervention and to serve additional children. While our facility is located in west St. Louis county, our pediatric therapy program has touched lives throughout the metropolitan area including families who live in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, and St. Charles County. Children who receive service through our pediatric therapy program receive therapy one to five times See Part III, Ln 4b statement
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd 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: -11%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 83.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $93K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.