John V Lindsay Wildcat Charter School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134121582
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122096186
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,331,932
- Expenses
- $11,155,445
- Assets
- $15,931,007
- Liabilities
- $12,190,066
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RONALD TABANO (CEO/PRINCIPAL)
Highest reported compensation
- RONALD TABANO (CEO/PRINCIPAL): $413,124 total reported compensation
- CECILIA SAKOSKY (CFO AND COO): $289,458 total reported compensation
- EDWARD PETERMAN (ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL): $237,721 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to provide students aged 16-21 with the personalized educational experiences they need to build successful futures by overcoming the economic, social and personal challenges that caused them to fail in other high schools.our vision is to re-engage students who have become disenfranchised with, and have dropped out of, traditional high schools, and enable them to obtain a high school diploma, pursue higher education and become productive members of society.
What it reported doing in 2024
1. Students exceeded our regents passing rate goals by wide margins.2. Our culinary team joined with the police and fire department to provide the local bronx community and schools with lessons on healthy cooking and eating.3. The jvl wildcat academy was the only charter school to participate in the New York city model congress program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $280.92 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 19th 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: -8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.43; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $413K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $963K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 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: 9 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.