Academy of Christian Education
Legal name: Association of Christian Education
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843748517
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Reston, VA, USA
- Phone
- 703-471-2132
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,756,637
- Expenses
- $4,541,437
- Assets
- $535,188
- Liabilities
- $42,264
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTEN ROGERS (PRESIDENT, SECRETARY & DIRECTOR)
- JUSTIN CIACCIO (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KRISTEN ROGERS (PRESIDENT, SECRETARY & DIRECTOR): $145,416 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
ACE strives to empower students to learn, lead, and serve an ever-changing world, built on a strong academic foundation with a Biblical worldview and the hope of Jesus Christ. Osvaldo is humbled to serve ACE in the capacity of Treasurer of its Board of Directors. As a parent of an ACE student for several years, Osvaldo supports the Christian environment and curriculum ACE provides to children in the area. Throughout the years, Osvaldo and his family have supported bible distribution and translation efforts all over the world. Osvaldo serves on several boards, lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three children and attends McLean Bible Church. Professionally, Osvaldo is Principal and President of DEVAL LLC responsible for the general operations, strategy development and implementation, and oversight of DEVAL’s business lines and its hundreds of staff, inclu.
What it reported doing in 2024
The association operates a school providing education for pre-k through 10th grade. The academic year is july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2025.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.84 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd 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: Limited
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 88% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $4.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $145K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.