Bethels Family Christian Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824774925
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Houston, TX, USA
- Phone
- 7137295672
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Child Day Care
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,429,013
- Expenses
- $1,294,854
- Assets
- $2,663,388
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Cassandra Bandy (President)
People named in this filing
- Cassandra Bandy (President)
- Marcus D Holman (Treasurer)
- Veronica Harts (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bethel's Family Christian Academy Incorporated (BFCA) exists to provide a holistic education that promotes the highest achievement in academics by focusing on language arts, math, writing, art, science, social and emotional skills, character development, physical and fine motor skills for children ages 18 months to Pre-K. To provide an education that inspires academic success, encourages spiritual growth, and promotes individual excellence.
What it reported doing in 2025
Bethel's Family Christian Academy Incorporated (BFCA) exists to provide holistic education that promotes the highest achievement in academics by focusing on language arts, math, writing, art, science, social and emotional skills, character development, physical and fine motor skills for children ages 18 months to Pre-K. To provide an education that inspires academic success, encourages spiritual growth, and promotes individual excellence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.4%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 62.3%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,053.34 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.06; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 47.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.4% of revenue deployed · 62.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $806K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.