The Buckley School, New York
Legal name: The Buckley School in the City of New York
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 131837409
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 212-535-8787
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,992,151
- Expenses
- $29,016,216
- Assets
- $137,481,776
- Liabilities
- $14,359,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NICHOLAS W ACQUAVELLA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GREGORY FOWLKES (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- GREGORY O'MELIA (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $1,032,987 total reported compensation
- COREY DURNEY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $392,541 total reported compensation
- JULIE KING (ASSISTANT HEAD OF SCHOOL): $323,157 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As an independent boys school in New York City, Buckley recognizes and appreciates the great responsibility it has in shaping the lives of tomorrow's leaders. With a tradition of excellence dating back over 100 years, we are fortunate to offer our students and families an environment where doing your best becomes the only way of doing things at all.
What it reported doing in 2024
The school provided education to 373 boys in grades kindergarten to ninth and continued to fulfill its core mission of developing fundamental skills, integrity, respect and the joy of learning and satisfying the pursuit of excellence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 73.5%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 12.1%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.74; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 73.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1M · 36 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.6M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.