The Agnes Irwin School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231352650
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rosemont, PA, USA
- Phone
- 610-801-1869
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,741,583
- Expenses
- $32,726,066
- Assets
- $130,097,124
- Liabilities
- $37,334,937
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SALLY KEIDEL (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $732,238 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH ROSSINI (ASSISTANT HEAD OF SCHOOL): $252,550 total reported compensation
- ALLISON HOUGH (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT): $199,047 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 Agnes Irwin School empowers each girl to learn, to lead, and to live a legacy.
What it reported doing in 2024
The agnes irwin school, a non-denominational all-girls college preparatory school for grades pre-k through 12, fosters the intellectual, and personal growth of girls and young women through a rigorous liberal arts education and dynamic co-curricular programming, including visual and performing arts, athletics, community service, and leadership development. Our center for the advancement for girls (cag) serves as a research base for initiatives focused on four pillars critical to girls' success: leadership, global citizenship, wellness, and 21st century teaching and learning. Our student body of approximately 580 represents a diverse array of communities throughout the philadelphia region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% 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 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 52.5%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 66.3%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 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: 19.7%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.98; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 52.5% of revenue deployed · 66.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $732K · 36 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.