Shepherd Elementary School Star Achievers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460754979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2024650514
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $666,773
- Expenses
- $622,171
- Assets
- $203,298
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHELLE TOUSSAINT (PRESIDENT)
- RADHA RAJKOTIA (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC VIERA (EXEC. DIRECTOR (NV)): $70,000 total reported compensation
- BABATUNDE ADELINA (ASSIST. OPS MANAGER (NV)): $35,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A. Provide academic & enrichment activities to students before & after school b. Provide a safe, secure, fun, recreational & educational experience to students c. Promote & advance student's social, emotional, cognitive & physical development
What it reported doing in 2024
185 before & aftercare students enrolled for the 2024-2025 school year. Educational enrichment prorams include but not limited to tutoring; basketball & fitness (43 students); robotics, capoeira & zumba, bridge design & technology (20 students); soccer (40 students); karate (20 students); & violin (10 students).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.1%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.7%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.1% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 21 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX DepreciationDepletion column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.