The Intergenerational School

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341901127
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2167210120
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,689,534
Expenses
$4,870,904
Assets
$7,116,441
Liabilities
$6,723,538

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Aziz Ahmad (Principal): $83,640 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 Intergenerational School's mission is to connect, create and guide a multigenerational community of lifelong learners and spirited citizens. It serves K through 8 students and older adults with an innovative developmental approach that includes real life experiences and community relationships. Each multi-age classroom (spanning 3 to 4 years of age and varied abilities), creates dynamic and individualized learning environment where everyone can move fluidly through development stages based on mastery (no social promotion).

What it reported doing in 2024

The Intergenerational School connects, creates and guides a multigenerational community of lifelong learners and spirited citizens. It serves about 250 K-8 students with an innovative developmental approach that includes real life experiences and community relationships. The Intergenerativity Project was a month long collaboration between the Intergenerational School community-board members, mentors, students, teachers and parents, Judson Smart Living residents, and Case Western Reserve University professor and Pulitzer Prize winner, Jim Sheeler and his college students, as well as the Story Bridge Theater Arts Company. Using the Story Bridge process, multiple stories were collected from our community members ages 6-90 and were brought to life in an interactive place that featured a promenade of vignettes (with our own students, parents, and volunteers as actors) and a community dance for all participants. The Intergenerational Schools are also recipients of a nation Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence. The Eisner Prize recognizes individuals or non-profit organizations for effort to unite multiple generations - especially seniors and youth and bring about positive, lasting, changes in their communities. Each multi-age classroom (spanning 3-4 years of age and varied abilities), create a dynamic and individualized learning environment where everyone can be both a teacher and a learner. Progressing at their own pace, students move fluidly through developmental stages based on mastery ( no social promotion). Students regularly interact with diverse adults and elders who participate as mentors, tutors and co-learners. Community partnerships are key and every class adopts a long-term care facilitys resident for regular visits and activities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 72.2%; rating input score 72
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.9%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.46; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 75% of revenue deployed · 72.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $84K · 8 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $672K reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 23 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX PensionPlanContributions column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.