St. Bernard's Academy
Legal name: St Bernard's Catholic School St Bernard's Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 680462363
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Eureka, CA, United States
- Phone
- (707) 443-2735
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,613,613
- Expenses
- $4,282,290
- Assets
- $2,493,413
- Liabilities
- $1,074,714
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL SHANAHAN (PRINCIPAL/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL SHANAHAN (PRINCIPAL/PRESIDENT): $143,020 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 cater to young adults and children who respond well in small classes, a structured academic routine, strong faculty support, and are prepared for success and achievement upon graduating through faith, intellect, and service. These gifts can be made now, while a donor is living, or through a bequest in a will or family trust. We can help in the process by explaining to prospective donors the advantages of making permanent and protected gifts to the school. Thank You for your continued commitment to the success of St. Bernard’s Catholic School! Mission statement. The St. Bernard’s Board of Trustees encourages our community of supporters to make long-term, or permanent cash gifts to the School, whether they are in the form of cash, appreciated stock, or real property. Virtually any valuable asset can be received by the Board of Trustees and managed for the future benefit of our...
What it reported doing in 2024
Our school has been in continuous operation since 1912. We serve students in humboldt county for grades 7-12. We offer a strong academic program at all grade levels with a balanced comprehensive literacy program, enhanced by a library. The 7-12 grade classes enjoy specialized physical education, spanish, latin and departmentalized instruction. The high school offers college preparatory and honors programs in science, english, social science, and math. In addition, our campus provides a preschool that provides an affirmative catholic educational environment sensitive to the development of the whole child.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 60% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.