SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union

education-worker credit union

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union

Industry Finance

A large California credit union serving school employees and their families with banking, lending, and financial services. SchoolsFirst scores well because a member-owned not-for-profit structure is tied to a bounded education-worker constituency, though large-scale administration and ordinary privacy limits still matter.

Why this matters: SchoolsFirst is a strong credit-union comparator because it is large without becoming a shareholder bank.

Letter grade B Qualified Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 48* B - Qualified

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material48
Bonus+3
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap51
Penalties-3
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Evaluation Overview

B - Qualified

The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from Accountability Opacity.

Strengths

  • Ownership7/10
  • Extraction7/10
  • Governance6/10

Penalties

  • Accountability Opacity-2
  • Surveillance Capture-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
  • Linked claims10
  • Direct axis claims10
  • Coverage10/13

Scoring Axes

Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
7 / 10

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
6 / 10

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
7 / 10

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
4 / 7

The linked evidence gives a bounded factual basis for this placement.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
5 / 7

The linked evidence gives a bounded factual basis for this placement.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
5 / 7

The linked evidence gives a bounded factual basis for this placement.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
4 / 5

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank. [1]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity. [2]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends. [3]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks. [4]
  • context SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product. [5]
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution. [6]

Penalties

Penalty Applied Why this penalty
Accountability Opacity
?
Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
-2

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union's public materials establish cooperative status but do not make practical member governance power as legible as the strongest worker or community-controlled institutions.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union's public materials establish cooperative status but do not make practical member governance power as legible as the strongest worker or community-controlled institutions. [9]
Surveillance Capture
?
Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
-1

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union provides digital financial services that necessarily involve account-data processing, fraud monitoring, and transaction surveillance, even without evidence of unusual biometric or AI behavior scanning.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union provides digital financial services that necessarily involve account-data processing, fraud monitoring, and transaction surveillance, even without evidence of unusual biometric or AI behavior scanning. [10]

Bonus Credits

Bonus Credit Why this credit
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
2 / 3

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union's not-for-profit credit-union structure gives members a stronger claim on rates, fees, and service value than ordinary shareholder-bank customers.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union's not-for-profit credit-union structure gives members a stronger claim on rates, fees, and service value than ordinary shareholder-bank customers. [7]
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency, especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or individualized pricing are normal.
1 / 3

SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union makes at least some public institutional, fee, or annual-report information available, giving members more cost and governance visibility than opaque fintech products.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Financial-services expansion pass calibrated against existing credit unions, community-development banks, megabanks, and fintech entries.

Linked evidence
  • SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union makes at least some public institutional, fee, or annual-report information available, giving members more cost and governance visibility than opaque fintech products. [8]

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

Medium 75/100

10 verified linked claims 10 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 10/13 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 19/20

10 verified linked claims

Source quality 10/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 9/18

10 direct claims across 13 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 8/10

10/13 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union publicly presents itself as a member-owned or member-powered not-for-profit credit union rather than a shareholder-owned bank.

Ownership Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

2SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union operates in the credit-union model, where members are the ownership constituency and board governance is formally tied to member control rather than outside equity.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union describes a not-for-profit cooperative model that returns value through member service, rates, community benefit, or reinvestment rather than investor dividends.

Extraction Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

4SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers ordinary consumer banking and lending services as a member-focused alternative to investor-owned banks.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

5SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union offers practical deposit, lending, card, or digital-banking products that meet ordinary household financial needs without making speculative trading or store-card debt the core product.

Product Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

6SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union has enough scale to provide useful consumer banking access while remaining formally organized as a cooperative financial institution.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

7SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union's not-for-profit credit-union structure gives members a stronger claim on rates, fees, and service value than ordinary shareholder-bank customers.

Good Deal Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

8SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union makes at least some public institutional, fee, or annual-report information available, giving members more cost and governance visibility than opaque fintech products.

Cost Transparency Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

9SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union's public materials establish cooperative status but do not make practical member governance power as legible as the strongest worker or community-controlled institutions.

Accountability Opacity Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

10SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union provides digital financial services that necessarily involve account-data processing, fraud monitoring, and transaction surveillance, even without evidence of unusual biometric or AI behavior scanning.

Surveillance Capture Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

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