The Wilson School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 436099964
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Clayton, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3147254999
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,081,086
- Expenses
- $5,814,075
- Assets
- $9,064,940
- Liabilities
- $4,212,991
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TALIYA KING (PRESIDENT)
- PHILIP PAYNE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THAD FALKNER (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $287,279 total reported compensation
- ANDREA RUTH (ASST HEAD OF SCHOOL): $111,879 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prepare students for success in an ever-changing world, our exceptional educators embrace classic and innovative methods within a nurturing, inclusive, and collaborative environment. Our mission is to provide them with an excellent academic education...(see schedule o)a belief in their creative abilities, an understanding of their social responsibilities, a respect for and value of differences in people and points of view, a sense of responsibility for their personal and physical well-being, and a foundation for lifelong learning.
What it reported doing in 2024
Camp, after-school activities, and auxiliary programs provide a fun, kid-centered environment where kids can take part in physical and creative activities. These action-packed enrichment offerings are conducted by experienced educators. There are a wide variety of after-school offerings including study hall, robotics, destination imagination, chess, mad science, sport skills, fencing and ballet. Auxiliary programs include yearbook and organized sports teams include soccer, basketball and baseball. There were 291 kids participating in these programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.2%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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; 63rd 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: Fail
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.2% of revenue deployed · 83.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $287K · 18 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $106K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.