Cair Paravel Latin School Inc
EIN 480909052 · Topeka, KS · — · education-research
Address635 SW CLAY ST, Topeka, KS 66606-1431
Mission · 990 Part I
“To cultivate classically trained, lifelong learners, committed to the lordship of Jesus Christ, who will enrich their community and God's kingdom.”
The IRS Form 990 for FY 2024 is due ~Nov 15 of the year after the fiscal close, followed by 3–6 months of IRS processing and 6–12 months before the cleaned data is published. FY 2024 should begin appearing here around mid-to-late 2025. A gap between today and the latest filing does not mean the org hasn't filed.
▸Additional financials & ratios
Attestations & Audits
Org-supplied disclosures that have been verified by the Ihsan Standard Editorial Council. Every standard has a Gold tier (★) reached via an Ihsan Standard or accepted third-party audit. An empty section means the org has not yet filled it in — not that they fail the standard.
- Zakat methodology disclosurenot yet attested
- Zakāt al-Fitr timeline commitmentnot yet attested
- Qurbānī / Udhiya timeline enforcementnot yet attested
- Kaffāra fulfillment commitmentnot yet attested
- Annual zakat distribution reportnot yet attested
- Orphan-fund segregation (Qurʾānic amāna)not yet attested
- Restricted-purpose fund segregation (honoring the amāna)not yet attested
- Per-donation tracking & fulfillmentnot yet attested
- Supplier-stack cleanup plan filednot yet attested
- Full supplier-stack audit completednot yet attested
- Taʿāwun Procurement Audit — Muslim community vendor pledgenot yet attested
- Khulafāʾ al-Arḍ Environmental Stewardship Auditnot yet attested
Filing observations & context
1 indicativeSpecific datapoints from Cair Paravel Latin School Inc's most recent IRS Form 990 that warrant a closer look. Each item is computed directly from the org's own public filing — we explain what the datapoint is, what it might mean, and the legitimate reasons it could be present. Read these as context, not conclusions.
- Elevated reserves relative to annual expensesindicative
Net assets equal 20.0 months of operating expenses (>18mo threshold).
What this meansNet assets at year-end equal more than 18 months of operating expenses (i.e. the org could run its current programs for over a year and a half without any new revenue).
Why it matters (and what it might not mean)Many nonprofits — particularly endowments, scholarship funds, and orgs with donor-restricted balances — legitimately hold reserves above 18 months. The flag isn't an accusation; it's a prompt to read the org's reserves policy, which should be public for any org sitting on this much liquidity.
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{ "net_assets": 7382625, "annual_expenses": 4420702, "months_of_reserve": 20 }
Where the money went · FY 2023
Form 990 Part IX (Statement of Functional Expenses) split into the four functional buckets, plus automated anomaly detection across the most-asked donor questions.
Expense breakdown · FY 2023
Total $4.17MForm 990 Part IX line items we have on file for this filing (compensation totals + fundraising lines). The full functional-expense col-A/B/C/D split (grants, program, admin, fundraising) was not in the structured extract — the residual sits in “Program & operations” below. Reading note: compensation is NOT the same as “admin overhead” — for orgs running clinics (like IMAN’s FQHC), schools, or in-house programs, most of compensation is program work.
- Compensation & benefits$2.69M · 64.5%
Form 990 Part IX lines 5–10 — total staff compensation: salaries & wages, payroll taxes, and benefits across everyone the org pays (program, clinical, and support staff), plus any pay to officers, directors, and key employees. The per-person split — including which officers, if any, are paid — is in the Compensation history section below. For orgs running clinics, schools, or in-house programs, most of this is program work, not admin.
- Fundraising$3K · 0.1%
Form 990 Part IX line 11e (professional fundraising) + direct fundraising expenses. Donor acquisition, professional fundraisers, mailings.
- Program & operations (other)$1.48M · 35.4%
Total expenses minus compensation and fundraising — the residual covering program supplies, occupancy & utilities, professional fees, beneficiary services, medical supplies (for clinics), travel, equipment, and depreciation. ProPublica's structured extract did not include the Part IX functional split for this filing year; the breakdown PDF reconciles which specific lines went where.
Fundraising efficacy · not the primary lens for this org
Cair Paravel Latin School Inc reports $499K in contributions on only $3K of fundraising spend (151 : 1) — a ratio that suggests this org isn't fundraising-driven in the conventional sense. The Form 990 “fundraising expense” line item is meant to capture solicitation costs (telemarketing, direct mail, digital ad spend); for universities, masjids, foundations, and orgs primarily supported by major gifts or program revenue, that line is small or zero, and the resulting “ratio” reads as meaningless.
The right operational-efficiency lens for an org like this is reserves, payroll composition, and program-expense ratio — see the financial-anomalies section and the multi-year trend dashboard.
Year-over-year trends · through FY 2023
Arrow color = direction × good-when-upPer-metric direction and magnitude vs. the prior fiscal year. Where the data goes back far enough, the 3-year compound annual growth rate is included — useful for separating one-off spikes from sustained trends.
- Revenue↑ 5.0% YoY$4.45Mprior: $4.24MΔ +$212K3y CAGR +15.4%
Total revenue per Form 990 Part I line 12.
- Contributions↓ -4.7% YoY$499Kprior: $524KΔ −$25K3y CAGR +43.6%
Form 990 Part I line 1h — gifts, grants, and contributions received.
- Investment income↑ 434.9% YoY$19Kprior: $4KΔ +$15K3y CAGR +58.7%
Form 990 Part VIII line 4 — interest, dividends, and other investment earnings on the org's reserve. For orgs with material reserves, a healthy investment-income trend indicates capital is actually working; near-zero income on a large reserve raises the 'idle capital' question.
- Total expenses↑ 7.2% YoY$4.17Mprior: $3.89MΔ +$282K3y CAGR +10.5%
Form 990 Part I line 18 — total functional expenses.
- Top-officer compensation↑ 5.8% YoY$97Kprior: $92KΔ +$5K3y CAGR +6.0%
Form 990 Part IX line 5 — aggregate compensation for officers, directors, key employees, and the five highest-paid employees. Growing in line with revenue is expected for healthy orgs; growing faster than revenue is the question worth asking.
- Total compensation & benefits↑ 8.3% YoY$2.69Mprior: $2.49MΔ +$206K3y CAGR +7.0%
Officer comp + other salaries + payroll tax — total people-cost of running the org.
- Net assets↑ 5.7% YoY$5.14Mprior: $4.87MΔ +$275K3y CAGR +10.6%
Form 990 Part X line 33 — assets minus liabilities at year end.
- Months of reserve→ -1.5% YoY14.8 moprior: 15.0 mo3y CAGR +0.1%
Net assets ÷ (annual expenses ÷ 12). The trend matters more than the absolute number: a falling reserve year-over-year is the early warning sign of fragility, even if it's still above the 3-month floor.
No financial anomalies surfaced
For the most recent fiscal year on file, the automated checks (fundraising-cost ratio, single-contractor concentration, reserve adequacy, officer-comp share) did not flag anything. This is the default state for most orgs and is meaningful — it means the math on Form 990 Part IX and Part VII Section B doesn’t require an explanation.
▸Multi-year history
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Multi-year history
click to expand| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net assets | Contributions | Officer/KE comp | Inv. income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $4.4M | $4.2M | $5.1M | $499K | $97K | $19K |
| 2022 | $4.2M | $3.9M | $4.9M | $524K | $92K | $4K |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $3.6M | $4.5M | $1.0M | $84K | $6K |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $3.1M | $3.8M | $168K | $81K | $5K |
| 2019 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $4.0M | $295K | $78K | $2K |
| 2018 | $3.3M | $3.0M | $3.9M | $367K | $75K | $2K |
| 2017 | $4.0M | $2.8M | $3.6M | $1.3M | $67K | $5K |
| 2016 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2.5M | $165K | $64K | $5K |
| 2015 | $2.8M | $2.3M | $2.4M | $645K | $61K | $6K |
| 2014 | $2.6M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $592K | $59K | $8K |
| 2013 | $2.7M | $2.2M | $1.5M | $723K | $52K | $828 |
| 2012 | $1.9M | $2.0M | $1.0M | $67K | $95K | $2K |
| 2011 | $2.0M | $1.9M | $1.2M | $157K | $87K | $3K |
Ethical supplier stack — not yet scanned
scan pendingWe have not yet run the public-website vendor scan for Cair Paravel Latin School Inc. A blank section here is not evidence of a clean supplier stack — it means we don’t have data yet.
Coverage as of today: ~6 / 1,917 cohort orgs scanned. The Ihsan Standard rendered-site scanner is being rolled out across the cohort; the Supplier-Stack Audit (engagement track) covers vendors that don’t appear in public HTML at all (CRM, accounting, ad-tech back-office).
Compensation history
Form 990 Part VII Section A · 2 filings on record
Every officer, director, key employee, and highest-compensated employee with reported pay. Recent year is shown by default — switch tabs for prior years or the unique-people roll-up.
FY 2024
1 paid · 9 unpaid board · total $100K| Name | Title | From org | Related orgs | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melody Congdon | Head of School | $98K | $0 | $3K | $100K |
▸Verticals · detected automatically
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Verticals · detected automatically
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In their own words · Schedule O
Supplemental narratives the org wrote on IRS Form 990 Schedule O — program-activity descriptions, governance explanations, and answers to specific 990 line items. Useful primary-source context that doesn’t fit into the structured fields elsewhere on this page.
- Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11bFY 2024
Before the Form 990 is filed, the school accountant, board treasurer, and finance committee members jointly review the form. A copy is provided to the board for final review and approval before filing.
- Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12cFY 2024
The policy is monitored and compliance is enforced through communication at monthly board meetings.
- Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15FY 2024
The board of directors reviews and approves the compensation for the Head of School position. The Head of School reviews and approves the compensation for all staff and faculty positions except the Dean or Director level positions. The Head of School will consult with the board's personnel committee before finalizing compensation for the Dean or Director level positions.