Kahlon Family Services School - Kfs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814522690
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4158471961
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $481,276
- Expenses
- $504,943
- Assets
- $23,667
- Liabilities
- $23,667
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANNA ARENSTEIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- VANESSA (KAHLON): $106,448 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 every child with learning and behavioral needs with a comprehensive environment tailored one-on-one to nurture their learning style through an effective fully rounded program with a strong academic curriculum and a learning experience that enables sensory and emotional development.
What it reported doing in 2024
KFS School is dedicated to supporting every child with learning and behavioral needs by providing a personalized, nurturing environment. Through small-group settings and one-on-one attention, we offer a well-rounded program that combines a strong academic curriculum with sensory integration and emotional development, empowering each student to thrive according to their unique learning style.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 45
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 21.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $106K · 4 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $19K reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.