Slam Academy of Atlanta Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822970378
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3056692906
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,748,764
- Expenses
- $3,801,337
- Assets
- $6,746,885
- Liabilities
- $7,210,651
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- MIA BOUSSFEL (CHAIRMAN, DIRECTOR)
- ALTRENEASHA ERVIN (SECRETARY, DIRECTOR)
- QUINN CARTALL (VICE-CHAIRMAN, DIRECTOR)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization mission is to provide engaging, challenging and supportive learning environment that will motivate all students to be the best they can be in and out of the classroom and prepare them for future success.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization operates a charter school serving students from kindergarten through eighth grades in atlanta, Georgia. The school provides rigor in all subject areas, project based learning, and opportunities to foster genuine relationships among students, families, and community mentors to create richer learning communities. For fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, approximately 225 students were enrolled.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 98% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: -1.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.07; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.5% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 80.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.