CheerCCA.com
Legal name: Christian Cheerleaders of America
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562133510
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bethania, NC, USA
- Phone
- 336-749-0892
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $467,443
- Expenses
- $547,660
- Assets
- $5,188
- Liabilities
- $164,605
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROSE CLEVENGER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ROSE CLEVENGER (PRESIDENT)
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
Christian Cheerleaders of America (CCA) is a sports ministry using the vehicle of cheerleading to evangelize and disciple young people for Jesus Christ. Cheerleaders do get a bad rap, and unfortunately in today’s society, sometimes they deserve it. Some cheer teams have moved away from their central purpose and become either sex symbols or obsessed with competing. This is sad, the true purpose of cheerleading is to be a really awesome source of spirit and support, when done correctly this can make a big difference in the morale, spirit and sportsmanship of a ball game. As a matter of fact, cheerleaders can ultimately change the outcome of a game as they get the crowd involved and the team pumped up so much so that they start to change the way they play! Don’t we all need our own personal CHEERLEADER once in awhile? Sometimes life overwhelms.
What it reported doing in 2025
Cca conducts instructional camps in cheerleading skill and religious principles nationwide as well as one day fellowship events year round for the same purpose. Cca also conducts a mission trip to work with schools and churches to partner in a ministry to homeless families, reaching approximately 725 individuals in three large homeless communities as well as the students in three different schools and once church, including deaf interpretation to some.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 15
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.2%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 31.73; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 1 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $548K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 15 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.