Bay City Christian School
Legal name: Bay City Christian School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881624731
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Green Bay, WI, United States
- Phone
- 920.499.5561
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,111,285
- Expenses
- $3,384,783
- Assets
- $3,041,686
- Liabilities
- $1,940,702
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Aaron Lichtenwalner (Board Member): $6,088 total reported compensation
- Ray Anderson (Chairman): $4,863 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
_“Bay City Christian School exists to partner with Christian families in the continual growth of students toward academic excellence & spiritual maturity.”_ After more than 40 years of serving Christian families in the Fox Valley, Bay City Christian School has established a rich heritage of academic excellence and godly character training grounded in the truths of God’s Word. From our earliest days, we’ve nurtured and helped train the hearts of children from many different local, Bible-believing churches. In today’s shifting, morally relative, “anything goes” culture, our mission has never been more important — to help support Christian parents who seek to provide their children with a solid.
What it reported doing in 2024
We are a K4-12 school with 285 students. In addition to our academics, we offer extracurricular sports - Soccer, Volleyball, and Basketball. Our students are involved in choir and band also, participating in Fine Arts meets at the Elementary and Secondary level every year. Our secondary also puts on a major theatrical production each year, and the STEM group participates in a SeaPerch competition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- 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 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.