Story Autism Center
Legal name: St Dominic Savio Academy Inc Dba Story Autism Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 264828581
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Chandler, AZ, US
- Phone
- 480.659.5456
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,419,780
- Expenses
- $2,641,789
- Assets
- $370,152
- Liabilities
- $236,711
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CORINNA C NDOLO (CEO)
- HELEN HAYES (President)
Highest reported compensation
- CORINNA C NDOLO (CEO): $95,053 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We provide individualized, research-based education and behavioral support in a warm, structured environment where every child’s dignity, strengths, and potential are honored.
What it reported doing in 2025
St. Dominic Savio Academy, DBA Story Autism Center's curriculum is taught utilizing the principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA), with full-time program direction by a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst. Students are exposed to daily instruction in all academic areas including math, reading, and writing. They receive instruction daily in social and play skills, vocational skills, and daily living and self-help skills. In addition, all students have the opportunity to participate in music therapy, P.E., and art instruction weekly. For the calendar year of 2025, there were 34 students and 12 early intervention clients who were enrolled in these activities. We also operate an onsite childcare/preschool program which enrolls both staff and community enrollments. This inclusive program served 14 children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th 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: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -9.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $95K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.