The Charlton School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 141416732
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Burnt Hills, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5183998182
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,875,398
- Expenses
- $6,520,672
- Assets
- $24,070,181
- Liabilities
- $11,122,368
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT FENTON (SECOND VICE PRESIDENT)
- MICHEL BREWSTER (FIRST VICE PRESIDENT)
- JIM SCHULTZ (PRESIDENT)
- WENDY SHISLER (PRESIDENT)
- ALEX CAPO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ALEX CAPO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $251,427 total reported compensation
- KRISIN TAYLOR (DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL SERVIC): $220,724 total reported compensation
- LADEAN ADMINISZYN (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $199,680 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 the charlton school is to provide effective therapeutic, residential, educational and aftercare services to young women and their families who have encountered significant problems in their lives. "the mission is supported by the practice of advanced professional strategies which nurture and guide the clients toward fulfilling their potential as productive participants in their communities and the recognition of the needs and rights of all individuals to be treated with kindness, fairness and respect, and the acknowledgment of our belief in the individual's ability and potential for self empowerment and fulfillment. The mission will be dynamic and will include long-term support for the girls after discharge".
What it reported doing in 2024
Residential and educational facility for teenage girls.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 53
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th 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; 63rd 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: 5.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.69; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.4%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $251K · 21 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $7.4M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.