Soaring Eagle Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202286699
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lombard, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6303232900
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,039,633
- Expenses
- $9,559,306
- Assets
- $4,036,983
- Liabilities
- $3,662,661
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEANNA TYRPAK (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MELISSA LIND (PRINCIPAL): $172,066 total reported compensation
- DEANNA TYRPAK (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $151,381 total reported compensation
- MICHELE RICAMATO (DIR EXPERT CLINICIAN): $147,644 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide an academic and social learning environment for students with special needs that supports their individual strengths and learning styles and integrates learning and interaction within developmental language models and developmental individual-difference relationship (dir) based approach principles.
What it reported doing in 2024
Soaring eagle academy is a not for profit, non-public therapeutic day school approved by the Illinois state board of education, serving students ages 5 through 22 years old, diagnosed with autism and related disorders of communicating, interacting and learning, integrating developmental language models with dir principles, within a social and educational learning environment. Soaring eagle serviced 100 students from 53 placing school districts for 219 school days in 9 classrooms including one primary classrooms ages 5 to 9 years old, two primary classrooms ages 6 to 10 years old, two intermediate classrooms ages 10 to 14 years old, two high school classrooms ages 14 to 18, and two transition classroom ages 18 to 22 years old.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.1%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -5.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.91; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.1% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $172K · 10 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.