Calvary Baptist School
Legal name: Calvary Baptist School of Lansdale
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872906248
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lansdale, PA, United States
- Phone
- 215-368-1100
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,816,637
- Expenses
- $3,090,235
- Assets
- $691,647
- Liabilities
- $930,126
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
People named in this filing
- KATE HILL 922-1225 (CHAIRMAN)
- SAM WELLS 922-924 (VICE CHAIRMAN)
- HERMAN PETER RALL 922-825 (TREASURER)
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
We exist to educate students with a Biblical worldview and support families as they train up their children in truth, all to the glory of God. We view our students as uniquely designed and created by God to walk in plans He has foreordained for them. We offer rich learning opportunities and support services to individually serve students’ unique strengths and challenges. Want to support the mission of the school? Donations make a difference! Give Today. _We exist to educate students with a_ _Biblical worldview_ _and support families as they train up their children in truth, all to the glory of God_. Calvary Baptist School is a private K-12th grade school offering challenging educational programs in a safe and nurturing Christian environment. LEARN MORE.
What it reported doing in 2024
Calvary baptist school offers challenging educational programs in a nurturing christian environment to support families in the education of their children. Cbs exists to provide an educational resource to the home and the local church. Cbs upholds the following pillars as the foundation for all school ministry:" gospel-centered" family focused" academic excellence" individual design
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 50
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.4%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 64.2%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 49; 49th 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: 54.5%; rating input score 55; 8th 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: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.34; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 70.4% of revenue deployed · 64.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.