Russian Hill School

Overview

Mission

Teachers are involved together in the process of development--a mutual respect as researchers in education and facilitators for each other. If children get the message early on that learning is an exciting journey that never ends and that we do it together, not in a vacuum, they will embrace the process forever. We promote the approach of "learning by doing" with age similar companions and adult guidance.we use multi-procedures ("extended learning") and combined curricula to develop project effectiveness. This is to say that children learn to respect the time it takes to create something of worth and that attention spans and involvement in the process are enhanced through satisfying individual experiences.we nurture social development and believe it to be a primary focus of the pre-school agenda.as a non-profit organization, we continue to refine our purpose as teachers of children and leaders in the field of art-based education. We continue to refine our purpose as teachers of childre

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 79% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 52
• Transparency & Controls: 92
• Accountability: 72
• Sustainability: 37
• Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 57.1% of revenue deployed · 60.4% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $404K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 6 people listed
• Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
• Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
• Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
• 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
• High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
• Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.