High Jump
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364470186
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3125827700
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,179,937
- Expenses
- $3,195,491
- Assets
- $3,019,338
- Liabilities
- $675,642
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
47 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICK SHIELDS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- NATHAN J PIETRINI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- NATHAN J PIETRINI (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $276,531 total reported compensation
- JILL J REID (CHIEF ADVANCEMENT OFFICER): $214,592 total reported compensation
- YOLANDA E LUNA MROZ (CHIEF PROGRAMS OFFICER - TERM): $106,709 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
High jump is a tuition free, two-year enrichment program for talented and motivated middle school students with limited family income. The students attend classes for a five week session during the summers before 7th and 8th grade; as well as attend classes two saturdays a month during the school years. The program goals are to improve the students' academic capabilities, grow their social-emotional competencies and increase their access to high-quality high school options. High jump also offers programming for alumni (high school students). This programming is focused on helping students navigate high school, develop leadership skills, gain acceptance and enroll in a four-year college program.
What it reported doing in 2024
Having served 35 cohorts of students since our founding in 1989, high jump has enrolled over 3,500 middle school students into the middle school program. Currently, our cohorts are composed of 224 rising 7th graders. Within each cohort, 95% of our students are from chicago public schools, nearly 65% will be the first in their family to attend any post-secondary schooling, 44% identify as hispanic and 40% identify as african-american. The average student comes from a family of four with a household income of $40,000 annually.the program requires students to spend approximately 300 hours per year with our teachers engaged in academic and social-emotional coursework, as well as counseling for high school access and readiness. Over the initial two-year program, we retain approximately 88% of our students.when examining their standardized test scores, students who attend high jump make two years of math and reading growth for every one year they attend the program. Our students maintain high gpas and attendance rates. 85% of our students go on to attend rigorous college prep high schools in chicago and throughout the country. 50% of our students attend selective enrollment high schools in chicago public schools and 30% of our students attend selective private schools. While in high school, 100% of our alumni report that high jump prepared them well for high school. All our students graduate high school and 98% of them enroll in college immediately upon high school completion.79% of our total alumni, and 87% of our most recent cohort have graduated from college, compared to 33% of americans over the age of 25.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.6%; rating input score 58
- Program expense ratio: 56.7%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -0.5%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.6% of revenue deployed · 56.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 44 of 44 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $277K · 47 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 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: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 58/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.