BLACK PINE CIRCLE INC
2027 7th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 www.blackpinecircle.org

Total Revenue
$10,055,249
Total Expenses
$9,952,764
Net Assets
$2,073,806

Organizations Filed Purposes: Black Pine Circle's mission is to create a learning community that encourages humanity, empathy, moral depth, cultural understanding, and freedom in intellectual pursuits. Educationally, it is our goal to create intellectually vibrant people, independent thinkers, who will never lose their passion for learning, their delight in research and their involvement in cultural pursuits.

A K-8 independent school whose mission is to create a learning community that encourages humanity, empathy, moral depth, cultural understanding, and freedom in intellectual pursuits.

Serving the educational and emotional needs of 330 students, grades Kindergarten through Eighth Grade, with a comprehensive and award winning curriculum and philosophy. The School year lasts over 176 days and students matriculate to the most sought after high schools. The school is open each day from 7:30 am until at least 6 pm. Therefore, 10.5 hours per day (conservatively) over, 176 days, suggest that the school provide 2024 hours of continuous service each year. If one multiplies this through the student body number (2024 X 330), Black Pine Circle School is providing 667,920 hours of education each year to our students and families. As in previous years, by maintaining a healthy financial aid program, Black Pine Circle School retained nearly all students from the prior year. The school has also managed to retain nearly all of our nationally recognized faculty.

Executives Listed on Filing

Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing

NameTitleHours Per WeekTotal Salary
John CarlstroemExecutive Dir.40$280,351
William SheaTreasurer/CFO40$186,600
Deandre CalhounUpper School Head40$133,650
Christine MytkoSTEAM Coordinator40$118,904
Lisa RaffelLower School Head40$117,850
Anatoliy GulimovskiyMath Teacher40$112,780
Betsy CoryK-8 Counselor40$108,530
Karen ZukorBoard Member2$0
Shalini SharpBoard Member2$0
Mike SeelBoard Member2$0
Eric PearsonBoard Member2$0
Nisha ModyBoard Member2$0
Kathleen McnamaraBoard Member2$0
Jill HughesBoard Member2$0
Brett HazlettBoard Member2$0
Sandra HampBoard Member2$0
Lupita GarciaBoard Member2$0
Nam DoBoard Member2$0
Marc DerewetzkySecretary2$0
Peter WongBoard Chair2$0

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