St Stephen's Episcopal School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232107935
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172388590
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,198,458
- Expenses
- $1,338,296
- Assets
- $878,831
- Liabilities
- $188,751
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MICHELLE LOUCAS (HOS EX-OFFICIO MEMBER (NON-VOTING) 7/2024-5/2025): $125,330 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of st. Stephen's episcopal school is to provide a superior education in an episcopal setting to students of all faiths and ethnic heritages, cultivating confident individuals who contribute positively to their families, school, and larger community.- we nurture our students in an atmosphere of respect that they may thrive academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually and achieve their full potential. - we encourage our students to practice respect, responsibility, kindness, curiosity, and open mindedness. - we foster student growth by engaging a highly dedicated staff, and by encouraging a supportive communitywhich includes families, alumni, board of directors, and cathedral members.- we strive to make st. Stephen's episcopal school available to all.
What it reported doing in 2024
Student services include local and hands-on field trip experiences that provide an authentic bridge between classroom lessons and the greater community as students create connections. Students can be seen along riverfront park tapping into their creative minds, as the park serves as their equipmentless playground. The ootprint of students giving can be seen throughout the harrisburg community. The students have cleaned up during 2 minutes tuesday, volunteered at the central Pennsylvania food bank, and collected and made items for downtown daily bread and radiant hope. From the school's free pantry conceived and constructed by the kindergarden students to the fourth grade tabs for lab program which benefits the susquehanna service dog program, our students learn the graceful art of giving back to the community in which they reside.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.8%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: -11.7%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.8% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $838K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.