Academy at Chatsworth First Methodist Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991179120
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Chatsworth, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7062718999
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,410
- Expenses
- $30,911
- Assets
- $27,445
- Liabilities
- $946
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SONDRA GRIFFIN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SONDRA GRIFFIN (PRESIDENT)
- LESLEY HERNDON (SEC/TRES)
- JULIE ARP (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The academy at chatsworth first methodist inc. Is a christian home school program designed to bolster christian families who educate their children at home under state-approved guidelines for parental home schooling. The purpose of the academy is to provide additional educational support for parents and their students who are home schooled using certified teachers to present standard classroom subjects under in-class conditions at the academy's classroom facilities. Certified teachers for purposes of the academy are teachers who possess valid teaching degrees qualifying them to teach the subject matters offerred by the academy to its students and who possess current teaching certificates issued by the state of Georgia authorizing them to teach students in classroom situations. By way of further explanation, the academy is a home school hybrid program that partners with parents to offer students in-class instructional time in traditional educational subjects as a supplement to their hom
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing the chatsworth, Georgia community with a home school hybrid program that partners with parents to offer students in-class instructional time with state of Georgia certified teachers in traditional educational subjects for grades 1-4 as a supplement to their home school program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.5%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 99.3%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 46.2%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.5% of revenue deployed · 99.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.