Berea Academy Saint Louis

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821541783
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Crestwood, MO, USA
Phone
3147306258
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Student Services, Organizations of Students

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$154,015
Expenses
$138,603
Assets
$17,098
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jessica Turcios (New Executive Director; Tutor; Member, Board of Directors)
  • Elizabeth Mennemeyer (Previous Executive Director)
  • Robert Balassi (President, Board of Directors)

People named in this filing

  • Jessica Turcios (New Executive Director; Tutor; Member, Board of Directors)
  • Marguerite Sanazaro (Associate Director; Tutor)
  • Elizabeth Mennemeyer (Previous Executive 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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide college preparatory tutoring and life skills training for K-12 homeschooled students.

What it reported doing in 2024

Our #1 expense is payments to our tutors and support staff. Tutoring sessions are held three days per week, increasing accessibility for the homeschool community. Tutoring sessions meet once or twice per week, allowing students valuable time with tutors and also teaching time management. Tutors are employed based on their unique skills to provide a high-quality program to the homeschool community. Berea Academy utilizes a traditional school year, beginning in September and ending in May, with the year divided into two semester blocks. The entire format is designed to provide the homeschool student a group learning experience to enhance their home learning environment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 10%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.12; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 91.4%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8.6% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $139K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 20 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 1 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 16 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.