Arundel Christian School
Legal name: Arundel Christian School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272393002
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2021
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Hanover, MD, United States
- Phone
- (410) 859 8573
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,748,739
- Expenses
- $2,802,838
- Assets
- $1,198,206
- Liabilities
- $622,879
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Christy Spencer (Director): $71,500 total reported compensation
- Darrin Spencer (Director): $65,000 total reported compensation
- Sandra Bolin (Principal/Director): $57,883 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empower Within the safety of a loving and structured environment, Arundel Christian School is proud to serve students in Preschool, Elementary, Middle, and High School. Our educational strategy is based on teaching from a biblical worldview as a foundation by integrating God’s word in every subject. By doing so, our students are able to understand worldviews through a lens of faith that allows them to see every aspect of their life through a biblical worldview.
What it reported doing in 2021
Education Fund - Provide a quality education with a program accepted and approved by the county school board.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.3%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.9%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 97.3% of revenue deployed · 95.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.