Integration Charter Schools
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 472459523
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Staten Island, NY, US
- Phone
- (347) 855-2238
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $51,135,645
- Expenses
- $48,756,408
- Assets
- $137,141,462
- Liabilities
- $137,895,806
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SEAN HARRELL (CEO / PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SEAN HARRELL (CEO / PRESIDENT): $337,181 total reported compensation
- SHAVONN PEARCE-DOUGHLIN (DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT/CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER): $220,013 total reported compensation
- JEANINE TAYLOR (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $213,911 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Integration Charter Schools provides free, public, and open-to-all K–12 education on Staten Island, operating a network of charter schools that serve students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
What it reported doing in 2024
Integration charter schools (ics) is a network of associated schools dedicated to creating innovative pathways to college and career that are fully inclusive of all students. Each student's personalized pathway is thoughtfully designed to address their unique academic, professional, and personal goals, ensuring that they receive the support and resources needed to thrive. In addition to a rigorous academic curriculum, the social-emotional learning program plays a key role in fostering resilience, self-awareness, and interpersonal skills, preparing students for success both in and out of the classroom. Ics offers opportunities for students to earn college credits through partnerships with higher education institutions, allowing them to gain valuable experience and accelerate their academic journey.ics is comprised of lavelle preparatory charter school, new ventures charter school, early college charter school and richmond preparatory charter school.in 2024-2025, the ics network was in its 15th year of operation and served students in grades k-12 throughout all four schools. Ics serves over 1,500 students and has over 300 staff members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $52.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 77th 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: 4.7%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.81; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.01; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $337K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.