Christian Acres Youth Center, Inc.
Legal name: Christian Acres Youth Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261701929
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Tallulah, LA, United States
- Phone
- (318)-574-3146
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Camps
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,587,098
- Expenses
- $7,891,767
- Assets
- $3,375,893
- Liabilities
- $149,592
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM W ZIEGLER JR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JANET MOORE (BOARD MEMBER): $107,272 total reported compensation
- WILLIAM W ZIEGLER JR (PRESIDENT): $35,475 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Changing the way the future looks, one family at a time. | Mission and Philosophy The mission and management philosophy of Christian Acres is to provide a versatile community based alternative to traditional juvenile placement for those residents referred to the program by agencies with who the agency has entered into contractual agreements. It is our conviction that a resident should have a chance to function in a non-secure setting which allows him to remain in the community, using traditional community services that would normally be available to him. Christian Acres emphasizes a risk reduction goal by utilizing programs designed to assist residents in becoming law abiding, self-sufficient, contributing members of the community; thereby, changi.
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide services aimed at promoting social and emotional adjustment, enhancing life and independent living skills and eliminating destructive social behavior to delinquent youth. Contracts with the state of Louisiana department of youth services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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: 90
- Accountability: 48
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- 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: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.