St Paul's School for Girls Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520709497
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990 2018
- Location
- Brooklandville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4108236323
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $15,914,099
- Expenses
- $15,703,710
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
53 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANNE P BARTLETT (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
- ELIZABETH S ROBINSON (PRESIDENT)
- ELISE A BUTLER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN B STENERSEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PENNY BACH EVINS (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $509,186 total reported compensation
- DAVE FAUS (HEADMASTER - ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL): $480,354 total reported compensation
- KATHRYN R MCKEW (CFO/COO): $206,737 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
St. Paul's school for girls educates the minds and hearts of girls in a supportive and intellectually challenging community that encourages respect, integrity, creativity, and spiritual growth, preparing them as independent and confident young women to embrace the extraordinary opportunities of our complex world.
What it reported doing in 2018
St. Paul's school for girls is an independent day school committed to educating over 400 students with diverse talents, abilities, and backgrounds. The school supports a well-educated and experienced faculty committed to providing an academically challenging program while nurturing and supporting each student in grades five through twelve.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 76% for direct work, and 24% for grants.
- 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.9%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 69.8%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 96%; rating input score 96; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.3%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.8%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.9% of revenue deployed · 69.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 48 of 50 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $509K · 53 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2009 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.