Alongside Academy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
992239189
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue
$87,679
Expenses
$86,665
Assets
$4,602
Liabilities
$3,038

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ethan Dietrick (President)
  • Sarah Johnson (Vice President & Secretary)

People named in this filing

  • Ethan Dietrick (President)
  • Sarah Johnson (Vice President & Secretary)
  • Erik Unruh (Treasurer)

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

Our mission is to provide apprentice-style and Authentic Learning opportunities that promote: connection wonder stewardship hands-on-learning learning from our mistakes trial and error active participation and competence and confidence. These opportunities include: Farming gardening homemaking handcrafts outdoor and maintenance skills.

What it reported doing in 2024

A Homeschool Enrichment Program that specializes in homesteading and traditional skills. It is a weekly program that meets from 9am-3:30pm on Fridays for 30 weeks during the school year. In our backyard "classroom" students can fall in love with working with their hands - crafting the beautiful out of the ordinary repairing what is broken and stewarding things that grow.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

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: 1.2%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 7; 7th 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: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.