Success Academy Charter Schools
Legal name: Success Academy Charter Schools Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205298861
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Phone
- (646) 597-4641
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,954,919
- Expenses
- $153,620,313
- Assets
- $694,407,140
- Liabilities
- $381,848,458
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EVA MOSKOWITZ (CEO&PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL STRATEGY&ADV.)
Highest reported compensation
- EVA MOSKOWITZ (CEO&PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL STRATEGY&ADV.): $1,209,010 total reported compensation
- DAVID ELLNER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER & CHIEF GROWTH OFFICER): $829,604 total reported compensation
- INGRID LAMAE DE JONGH (CHIEF SCHOOLING OFFICER AND PROVOST): $718,937 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 a safe, structured, and beautiful learning environment that brings out the best in every child through a rigorous K-12 curriculum, expansive arts, chess, debate, athletics programming, and more — at no cost to families.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o
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 95% 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 - 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 reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.4%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th 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: 18.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.52; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.55; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 7 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 69.4% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 34 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.9M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.