Lansing Christian School
Legal name: Association for Christian Instruction
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362317610
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lansing, IL, United States
- Phone
- 708-474-1700
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,620,460
- Expenses
- $2,169,553
- Assets
- $1,884,421
- Liabilities
- $156,796
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maria Schutt (President)
- Brenna Krygsheld (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Maria Schutt (President)
- Brenna Krygsheld (Vice President)
- Mark Eenigenburg (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To train our children, in cooperation with parents, in such a way that they, as fellow workers with God, can perform duties in this world to the glory of God, for their own well-being and for the welfare of others. Lansing Christian School seeks to enroll families who desire a Christian education for their children, understand the school’s Statement of Faith, agree to protect the school’s mission, vision and climate, and have students that can be adequately served by our educational resources. We will not accept those who are antagonistic towards the Christian faith, unwilling to confirm their understanding of our Statement of Faith and commit to upholding our mission, vision, and climate, or whose students demonstrate a history of behavioral or educational needs that cannot be met by our resources. Admissions Process.
What it reported doing in 2024
Association for christian instruction operates lansing christian school that provides christian education to children of association members for grades k-8
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.1%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.1% of revenue deployed · 81.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.