St Paul City School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411871279
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512259177
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,694,023
- Expenses
- $14,192,295
- Assets
- $15,715,322
- Liabilities
- $18,681,926
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN MAGRAS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (BEG JULY 2024))
Highest reported compensation
- ERIC FERGEN (DIR OF SPEC ED/INTERIM EX DIRECTOR): $142,348 total reported compensation
- JUSTIN TIARKS (PRINCIPAL): $140,276 total reported compensation
- EMMANUEL DONABY (DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY EDUATION): $124,688 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
St. Paul city school (spcs) is a pre k-12 community school committed to serving the whole student and family through an equity-minded approach. Through rigorous academics, culturally responsive teaching, and a supportive environment, we prepare our students to thrive in college, careers, and life while driving positive change in the world around them.
What it reported doing in 2024
St. Paul city school is a public charter school that provides education to over 590 students from grades pre k-12.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.19; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.1% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $13M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $142K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.7M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.