Rocketship Four Elementary School

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
272833994
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2013
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Redwood City, CA, USA
Phone
8778060920
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Primary, Elementary Schools

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$0
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALICIA GONZALEZ (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • ALICIA GONZALEZ (PRESIDENT)
  • BARBARA HANSEN (TREASURER)
  • ALICIA GALLEGOS (SECRETARY)

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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Founded in 2006, rocketship education (www.rsed.org), a non-profit corporation, is building a national network of public elementary charter schools. Rocketship's mission is to eliminate the achievement gap in public education by creating a network of k-5 elementary charter schools in high need neighborhoods in major cities in the united states over the next decade. Each rocketship school operates in an academically underserved community, with a clear and simple goal: that its students achieve grade level proficiency by the time they graduate from elementary school. Rocketship focuses on its three pillars to ensure the success of all of its schools: excellent teachers and leaders, personalized learning, and engaged parents. Rocketship has pioneered a transformative instructional model that combines classroom teaching with tutors and technology to meet each student with the right lesson at the right time.

What it reported doing in 2013

Rocketship four elementary school operated rocketship mosaic elementary, a public elementary charter school serving approximately 610 primarily low- income students in an academically underserved community. All activities have been transferred to rocketship education.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 42
  • Sustainability: NotEnoughData
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: Limited
  • Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: Limited

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -67.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -60.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2011 to 2013
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 10 filed related-organization links
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Series filing activity did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.