Rise University Preparatory
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812384542
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8446551963
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,794,347
- Expenses
- $1,940,830
- Assets
- $1,870,163
- Liabilities
- $27,118
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- TACING PARKER (DIRECTOR)
- RENE JUAREZ (SECRETARY)
- DAVID WILLIAMS (CHAIR OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rooted in the bayview hunters point neighborhood, rise university preparatory offers quality education for 9th to 12th grade.
What it reported doing in 2024
In the 2024-2025 school year, our second class of seniors graduated -- 100% of them with offers to four-year universities. In total, our 20 seniors received 117 college offers, from universities such as uc berkeley, stanford, university of san diego and xavier. It was the third year our school offered ap courses, and our school's pass rate exceeded the global pass rate in 2 out of 3 tests. Students continued to grow in leadership in extracurricular clubs and athletics. Examples include; performing shakespeare at the bayview opera house, singing at los altos retreat center centennial with jerry brown, and advancing to the regional mesa competition. We gained dual accreditation from acsi and wasc, receiving 7 major commendations and identifying 4 improvement goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.