Pivot School Improvement Leaders
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920769769
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6158528828
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,544,419
- Expenses
- $1,452,031
- Assets
- $787,812
- Liabilities
- $78,752
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- AMY GALLOWAY (EXEC DIR/CO-): $169,201 total reported compensation
- ZOE BECKHAM (LEADER. COAC): $166,179 total reported compensation
- ANDRE WARREN (LEADERSHIP C): $114,191 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We equip and empower the most effective school leaders who drive results for every learner in our highest need schools.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pivot launched year two of cohort programming for school principals and our first year working with assistant principals in july 2024. 2024-25 programming included: - a multi-day, in-person summer institute to build self-awareness and plan strategically around priorities for the 2024-2025 school year - four in person learning sessions grounded in our 6 strands of learning and 5 leadership competencies - principal coaching - 25 one-on-one coaching sessions, at least 10 of which were in person, focused on each leader's leader learning plan, an individualized development plan that considers both the leader's and the school's needs - continued on schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 82% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 6%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 99.6% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 58.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 54.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.9% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $169K · 15 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.