Saint Mary's Hall

Legal name: Saint Marys Hall Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
740877330
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
San Antonio, TX, USA
Phone
(210) 483-9237
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$40,833,623
Expenses
$40,406,681
Assets
$140,394,309
Liabilities
$20,268,282

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

33 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MARCUS DODD (CEO & CFO)

Highest reported compensation

  • LEONARD MILLER (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $357,036 total reported compensation
  • JIM BOB WOMACK (ASST HEAD SCHOOL FOR ADVANCEMENT): $236,919 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL HARRIMAN (CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER): $186,757 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Saint Mary's Hall Board of Trustees determines and monitors the mission of the school, hires and supports the head of school, monitors fiduciary matters, and establishes general policies for the operation of the school.

What it reported doing in 2024

Saint marys hall is an independent co-educational institution serving approximately 750 students from montessori through form 12. Saint marys hall education encourages a lifelong love of learning in an environment of respect, responsibility, courage, compassion and integrity. Saint marys hall is among the finest college preparatory schools in the country. We are dedicated to a continuum of excellence in education, beginning with early childhood learning in our montessori and kindergarten program, continuing through lower school and middle school, and culminating in our comprehensive college preparatory program in upper school. Overall, the saint marys hall program seeks to provide each student with an opportunity to attain his or her personal best. The specific objective of a saint marys hall education is to combine moral and character-building goals with academic, athletic and artistic goals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 63% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 85% 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

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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 49
  • Transparency & Controls: 77
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 48%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 61.3%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.47; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 48% of revenue deployed · 61.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $357K · 33 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $208K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.