Wildwood School

Legal name: Wildwood School Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
952921998
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone
3104787189
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Primary, Elementary Schools

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,354,118
Expenses
$43,024,842
Assets
$172,650,600
Liabilities
$105,520,495

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

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • LANDIS GREEN (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $845,097 total reported compensation
  • ANTHONY BROWN (COO/CFO): $378,948 total reported compensation
  • JAIMI LEESS-BOEHM (ASSOCIATE HEAD OF SCHOOL): $227,524 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Wildwood School empowers students to be creative, ethical, and critical thinkers and leaders equipped with the skills, ethics and inspiration to transform their world.

What it reported doing in 2024

Wildwood provides private school education to 726 students. A key component of the school's curriculum is service to community as a whole. Every year, students are required to develop, participate, and foster public service projects. This component is required to matriculate from one grade to the next and to graduate from the high school in 12th grade. These projects vary from serving in local community assistance programs to fundraising for international humanitarian causes. The required hours from each student varies by grade and project with a minimum of 45 hours to a maximum of 120 hours for the academic year. The school also has an international community involvement program where students travel abroad and perform community service in underdeveloped countries. Wildwood's students come from economically, culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds. The board is committed to keeping the school accessible to families from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. The school's flexible tuition program provides financial support to families who would otherwise not have access to an independent school education. In 2024-2025, the amount of flexible tuition as a percentage of total tuition revenue was 16% and served 22% of our student population.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 83% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 71
  • Transparency & Controls: 95
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 69
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.3%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th 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: 16.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.01; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 70.3% of revenue deployed · 81.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $35.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $845K · 32 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.