Goodpasture Christian School
Legal name: Christian Schools Inc Dba Goodpasture Christian School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620725510
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Madison, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6158682600
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $18,415,975
- Expenses
- $14,473,507
- Assets
- $24,001,151
- Liabilities
- $2,121,240
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeff Bixenman (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jeff Bixenman (President): $223,435 total reported compensation
- James Turner (Coach and Teacher): $144,245 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the GCS faculty, students, and parents is to collaboratively build relationships with Jesus, provide academic excellence, and develop the skills to prepare students for Christian service to others. "We strive to create as much expression and energy as possible to allow God’s Spirit to transform the lives of our student body for his glory. This is the first, and most important, priority of Goodpasture Christian School. Our teachers and coaches serve as our best representation of Jesus through the daily rhythms of schedules, practices, and routines. They establish the setting and narrative where we seek to live out our **mission statement. **To God be the glory! Bible Classes / Devotionals Service Learning.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide educational instruction to students - teacher salaries, payroll taxes, benefits
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 74% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.31 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $12.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $223K · 12 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $193K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.