Springer School and Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310672662
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5138716080
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,053,772
- Expenses
- $12,221,214
- Assets
- $31,822,898
- Liabilities
- $1,772,933
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MIKE S WRIGHT (PRESIDENT)
- CECILY FASSLER PHD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- BRETT MARCOUX (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BRETT MARCOUX (PRESIDENT): $369,553 total reported compensation
- MARK PRIEST (VP OF FINANCE AND OPERATIONS): $189,020 total reported compensation
- KIRSTIN EISMIN (DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR): $161,755 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 empower students with learning disabilities to lead successful lives. To fulfill our mission, we are committed to fostering an educational setting that includes and respects the differing perspectives of all members of our community. Therefore, we welcome students, families, and staff from diverse backgrounds. We believe that all students with learning disabilities have the ability to succeed educationally, socially, and personally, and to ultimately become responsible for their own learning.springer school and center provides a program totally dedicated to children with learning disabilities. Every adult at springer understands learning disabilities and responds to children through that understanding. This appropriate environment permits a child to believe in and work toward his/her potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
The outreach center offers educational programs and professional development related to learning disabilities for students, parents, and educators. The outreach center's summer program helps children become more confident learners and improve their basic skills. In a nurturing environment, the children work with instructors trained to help children with learning difficulties. The four-week morning program provides small group strategic instruction in language arts, math, writing, and group problem solving. Afternoon programs range from social skills to creative expression.
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 82% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 18.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.6; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 26 of 26 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $9.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $370K · 33 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.