Nyos Charter School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742860628
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5125836967
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $20,268,255
- Expenses
- $20,306,258
- Assets
- $35,128,194
- Liabilities
- $29,370,698
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JULIE ATCHLEY (CHIEF OF SCHOOLS): $150,233 total reported compensation
- CURT MAREK (DIR OF OPS): $136,112 total reported compensation
- DEREK MILLER (CHF. OF OPS): $125,467 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NYOS Charter School - Not Your Ordinary School - is a free, public charter school that was founded in 1998 by a group of parents who wanted more out of education for their children. NYOS is committed to its students, staff, and academic excellence.
What it reported doing in 2024
NYOS Charter School is a public charter school founded to educate the whole student and foster a collegial program that challenges each learner with rigorous academics, innovative strategies, and expectations for civic engagement. NYOS served approximately 1,800 students from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade for the 2024-2025 school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $132.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th 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: 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: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 14th 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: -0.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.84; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $17.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 14 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.