The Springstone School
Legal name: The Springstone Community High School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161746484
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2011
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2011
- Location
- Lafayette, CA, US
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,239
- Expenses
- $281,105
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Springstone School is an independent, non-profit, Middle School and Community High School that serves neurodivergent students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Level 1), Anxiety, Non-verbal Learning Disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and other Executive Functioning challenges.
What it reported doing in 2011
Provided appropriate support and education for students with aspergers syndrome non-verbal learning disabilities and other neurocognitive challenges in high school environment
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 3
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 60th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -50.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 34.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $190K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $33K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.