HiveCheck reads any of the 1,639 independent schools in its coverage from the public record: up to nine years of IRS Form 990 financials, HiveCheck’s estimate of the Composite Financial Index (CFI), the school’s place among its closest peers, its market mapped neighborhood by neighborhood, and questions worth asking, drawn from the school’s own filings. The Firm plan gives your team five seats and the license to share those reports with the candidates and clients in your engagements.
Built by Lomuscio Labs, from the candidate side of independent-school searches.
Executive search, board search, and interim placement.
Strategic planning, enrollment and marketing, finance and operations, fundraising and campaign counsel, leadership transition.
Associations, lenders and insurers, architects and campus planners, technology and service providers.
A Firm subscription differs from an individual one in two ways. First, five seats on one bill, so your partners, consultants, and researchers share one license without juggling logins. Second, the license lets your team print or export a school’s report and share it with the candidate or client you’re advising or serving in that engagement — show it on a call, include it in a briefing packet, leave it with the client school — without giving anyone a login. It’s a per-engagement license, not a right to print the library.
Print a school’s report for the finalist you’re placing there, or for the client school you’re working with. Discuss the numbers on a call. Put the printed report or a Benchmark sheet in the briefing packet — one engagement at a time, with HiveCheck’s attribution kept on it.
Reports may not be posted publicly, resold, or used to build data products, dashboards, or client-facing tools of your own — and the print license is for active engagements, not for printing reports across the coverage set to keep a standing archive. The rest is in the Terms of Service.
The report your team reads is the report a candidate, a head, or a board chair can read. Every figure comes from the school’s own filings or a named federal dataset, with its fiscal year on the page, so every conversation starts from the same sourced numbers.
Search any of the 1,639 schools in coverage by name, city, or state. The full report opens under your license.
Up to nine years of the school’s own IRS Form 990, HiveCheck’s CFI estimate, its peer position, the market around the campus with a 10- to 45-minute drive-time control, and questions drawn from the filings. For a comparison group of your choosing, build a one-page Benchmark sheet.
Reports and Benchmark sheets print cleanly. Hand one to the finalist, leave one with the client school, or brief off it on a call. Under the Firm license, that’s what the license is for.
5 seats · print-and-share license · Benchmark sheets · candidate passes · every school in coverage · one annual invoice
For search firms, consulting firms, and organizations that work with independent schools. Sharing is per active engagement, not a printed archive of the coverage set. One team admin, single annual bill, cancel anytime from your team page.
Set up a Firm accountQuestions? Email contact@lomusciolabs.com.
We’ve been on the candidate side of enough searches to know how much financial homework walks into a campus visit undone, and the same homework matters in the first meeting of any engagement with a school. HiveCheck productizes it: the school’s own IRS filings, its peers, and its market, joined into one read.
A finalist who walks into a campus visit prepared, a consultant who starts the engagement with the baseline done, a partner who understands the school before the meeting — that’s the pitch. No data we don’t cite, no metric we don’t explain, no claim the underlying 990 doesn’t support.
We’re happy to walk your team through it in twenty minutes. If it’s useful, we figure out a fit. If it isn’t, you’ll know in twenty minutes and we’ll both have learned something.
It doesn’t replace your team’s institutional knowledge or your notes from prior engagements. It replaces the first forty minutes of building a school profile — the financial layer, the peer comparison, the market — so your people spend their time on the work only your firm can do.
Yes — that’s what the Firm license is for. Show a report on a call, print it for a campus-visit packet, or leave it with the client school you’re working with, one engagement at a time. What the license doesn’t permit is public republication, resale, or building your own derivative dashboard from the data — the full terms are on the Terms page.
Yes. The Firm license covers firms and organizations that advise or serve independent schools: strategy, enrollment, finance, fundraising, and transition consultants included. Pull up to nine years of a client school’s filings, its peer position, and its market before kickoff, build the comparison group the engagement calls for, and share the report with the client.
Yes, for your own work with schools: reading the schools you serve, preparing for meetings, and sharing a school’s report with that school when you’re working together. Sharing with a school you aren’t working with, public posting, and building a database of reports are outside the license.
Every report closes with five questions worth raising, generated from features of that school’s own 990 filings, most of them anchored to a specific number. Candidates use them with a search committee; consultants and partners use them to open a first meeting.
No. HiveCheck is a diligence layer, not an advisory service. Search firms use it to brief finalists and read client schools; consultants use it for the baseline before an engagement. The judgment stays with your team.
All public sources. IRS Form 990s through FY2025 for most schools (the IRS lag is real and we surface it on every report), NCES Private School Universe Survey 2021-22, U.S. Census ACS5 (2020-2024 vintage), drive times on OpenStreetMap roads via openrouteservice, U.S. BLS at state level, BEA county-level personal income (2024), and HUD Fair Market Rent (FY2024). Every metric links back to its source.
Anyone on your team who uses HiveCheck directly: partners, consultants, researchers. Five seats per Firm license. Candidates and clients don’t need seats — you share the report with them as part of the engagement, or give a candidate a 14-day pass.
Zero engineering. Create your account, pick the Firm plan, and invite your team. They sign in with their email and get the same product an individual subscriber does, under your team admin.
Yes. Email us at contact@lomusciolabs.com and we’ll set up a 30-day pilot for your team on one engagement. If it’s useful, we convert to annual.
Walk through the product with our team. If it fits your work, we figure out terms. If it doesn’t, you’ll have sharper questions for the next research tool you evaluate.