St. Philip's School
Legal name: St Philips School and Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 751097360
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Dallas, TX, US
- Phone
- 214.421.5221
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,022,025
- Expenses
- $11,745,623
- Assets
- $63,819,327
- Liabilities
- $15,475,834
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
37 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DR TERRY FLOWERS (HEADMASTER): $208,714 total reported compensation
- KELLEE WILKERSON-MURRELL (PRINCIPAL): $127,903 total reported compensation
- KAWANA MOORE (CFO): $123,876 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 provide an unparalleled education and compatible community services through a faith-based experience, with emphasis on serving low and moderate income families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Service and Athletics After school and on most weekends, the campus facilities and fields are open for a host of activities to South Dallas youth and their families. These programs are offered to residents at low or no cost. The Community Center offers a wide range of outreach programs for teens and young adults, food and meal services, senior services, computer literacy training, a summer enrichment program focusing on academic and athletic enrichment as well as other outreach activities. In addition to community outreach programs, Athletics is a continuous supporter of the South Dallas community, offering youth sports such as football, basketball, cheerleading, baseball, as well as soccer, track and field and lacrosse.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 59.7%; rating input score 60
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.83 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.2%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.43; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 59.7% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 34 of 34 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $8.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $209K · 37 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.