Wonderful College Prep Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262997342
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Delano, CA, USA
- Phone
- 661-721-2887
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Charter Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,755,244
- Expenses
- $55,253,849
- Assets
- $23,510,547
- Liabilities
- $11,009,953
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JORGE AGUILAR (SUPERINTENDENT): $427,264 total reported compensation
- MARCUS MORILLO (CHIEF FACILITIES OFFICER (THRU 11/2024)): $268,904 total reported compensation
- MIKE ROMERO (CBO): $227,859 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A great education begins with a nurturing, engaging, community-centered school environment, built on top of a strong and well-rounded academic foundation. Our graduates leave Wonderful College Prep Academy as critical thinkers and lifelong learners, equipped to earn a college degree and become the next generation of leaders in the Central Valley.
What it reported doing in 2024
Wonderful college prep academy provides an exemplary education for students from delano and lost hills, California, and surrounding school districts with goals of increasing the number of students who complete a postsecondary education and contributing to the development of students as self-motivated, competent, lifelong learners. During the year ended june 30, 2025, wonderful college prep academy - delano served approximately 1,845 students in transitional kindergarten through twelfth grade. Wonderful college prep academy - lost hills served approximately 535 students in transitional kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 92% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.47; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.1% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 85.9% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $427K · 22 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.5M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
- Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.