School of Constructive Arts

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 852422074
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2022–2024
Forms available: Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location: Alpine, TX, USA
Phone: 6464072245
Rating: 93
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue: $73,636
Expenses: $124,317
Assets: $356,202
Liabilities: $7,253

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

Robert Estrin (President)

People named in this filing

Robert Estrin (President)
James Jackson (Secretary)
Lizette Rohana (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

SCA's mission is to empower people and communities to build and live in healthy relation with the land and all its life.

What it reported doing in 2024

SCA is a field school that taught regenerative design, building, and ecology through direct observation, participation, and experimentation.

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 97
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 30
Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

Operating margin: -68.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.87; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 31.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 49.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -44.2% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.5% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $114K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.