Stella Maris Collaborative Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993533537
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5129476701
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $242,038
- Expenses
- $81,397
- Assets
- $160,641
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAURA BARRETTO (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- LAURA BARRETTO (PRESIDENT)
- SUSANNA MURRAY (SECRETARY)
- RICHARD MASON (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We envision a welcoming catholic microschool providing a quality education, teaching through christ-centered values with a love of learning, growing all students to their fullest potential, and preparing them to be lifelong learners.
What it reported doing in 2024
Stella maris collaborative is a catholic microschool that collaborates with families to promote a sense of belonging and provide a high-quality education that is individualized to meet the needs of the whole child through low student-to-teacher ratios, multi-age classrooms, and project-based learning
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.5%; rating input score 33
- Program expense ratio: 97.1%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 66.4%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.97; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.5% of revenue deployed · 97.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.