Spring Hill College
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630302179
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Mobile, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2513802255
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,110,763
- Expenses
- $42,486,197
- Assets
- $126,134,400
- Liabilities
- $60,071,682
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY H VAN BRUNT (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY H VAN BRUNT (PRESIDENT): $344,920 total reported compensation
- REBECCA L CANTOR (PROVOST): $202,323 total reported compensation
- VANNEE CAO-NGUYEN (VP CULTURE AND COMMUNITY): $164,742 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Spring Hill College, as a Catholic and Jesuit institution, educates students to become leaders in service to others. The college nurtures learning for body, mind and spirit, teaching and acting with justice, care and in the service of others.
What it reported doing in 2024
Spring hill college is a co-educational institution committed to the principle of educating men and women for service to others. The college is a liberal arts, jesuit college which offers various undergraduate and graduate programs. During the academic year approximately 1500 students were pursuing a degree.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 51
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.3%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.97; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 97.3% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $345K · 36 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.9M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.