St. Andrew School
Legal name: St Andrew School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 810506955
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2022
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022
- Location
- Helena, MT, US
- Phone
- 406-449-3201
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,659,604
- Expenses
- $1,670,543
- Assets
- $1,377,867
- Liabilities
- $65,570
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN RAMIREZ (PRESIDENT)
- KATHY LINTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN RAMIREZ (PRESIDENT)
- KATHY LINTON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KEVIN MOLM (SECRETARY)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Graduates of St. Andrew Catholic School will be virtuous leaders, enthusiastic Catholics, resourceful learners, and open witnesses.
What it reported doing in 2022
St. Andrew school is committed to classical learning as a teaching pedagogy and an educational philosophy, and teaches from the perspective of catholic christianity. St. Andrew school focuses on the academic, moral and spiritual aspects of the students. The school's policies for student life attempt to create and reinforce intellectual and moral virtues, guided by the calling of christian life. The school offers physical education for all grades, and organized sports of basketball, volleyball, ultimate frisbee, that compete with local and surrounding area schools. We also offer after school clubs. The school's enrollment is currently 235 pre-k through 12th grade students. The school employs a full-time administrator, 2 full-time vice principals, 21 full-time faculty, 7 part-time, and 2 support staff.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 84% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.7%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 55/100.