Odyssey Community School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 061452142
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Manchester, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8606451234
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,901,958
- Expenses
- $6,134,008
- Assets
- $5,273,334
- Liabilities
- $3,346,856
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIRIAM LEWIS (PRESIDENT, THRU 05/2025)
- STEPHANIE DONAHUE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PHILIP O'REILLY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA SWANN (CO-PRINCIPAL): $134,136 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE BASHAW (CO-PRINCIPAL): $130,494 total reported compensation
- PHILIP O'REILLY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $127,023 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At odyssey, we strive to support the development of our students into successful, well-respected members of their community by promoting academic excellence, self-confidence, and the internalization of our core values: courage, integrity, respect, curiosity, leadership, and excellence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Odyssey community school provides a rigorous, student-centered educational program for children in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The school fosters academic achievement, personal responsibility, and community involvement in a safe and inclusive learning environment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 53
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.4%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.8%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.4% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 14 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $264K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.