Chapel Hill Christian Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844424782
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Clarksville, Tennessee, United States
- Phone
- 931.553.3656
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,999,754
- Expenses
- $4,168,792
- Assets
- $3,598,511
- Liabilities
- $2,020,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
People named in this filing
- AMANDA CHERRY (BOARD MEMBER)
- ERIC ELLIS (BOARD MEMBER)
- CHANDLER HAMAKER (BOARD MEMBER)
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
The mission of Chapel Hill Christian Academy is to partner with families in the teaching of their children by providing an education that is distinctively Christian, academically excellent, biblically saturated and service and mission oriented. The Vision of Chapel Hill Christian Academy is to cultivate a community rooted in faith and learning and committed to growing the kingdom of God by spreading His love, light, and truth today and for generations to come. Our Mission Chapel Hill Christian Academy partners with families in the teaching of their children by providing an education that is distinctively Christian, academically excellent, Biblically saturated, and mission and service-oriented.
What it reported doing in 2024
Chapel hill christian academy offers families a prek through 9th grade education with options for hybrid homeschool families. Chca is a school where we will partner with families in the teaching of their children by providing an education that is distinctively christian, academically excellent, and biblically saturated. Our upper school consists of 6th and 9th grade for full time students and 6th-10th grade for hybrid homeschool students. Our lower school consists of pre-k 3 through 5th grade and our 3rd-5th grade hybrid homeschool program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 85% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 53; 53rd 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: 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: -4.2%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.