Churchill Center & School
Legal name: Churchill Center and School for Learning Disabilities
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431123374
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Town & Country, MO, United States
- Phone
- (314) 997-4343
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,611,650
- Expenses
- $7,859,860
- Assets
- $31,209,263
- Liabilities
- $2,359,369
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATT COURTNEY (PRESIDENT)
- JEFF TODT (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DANIEL FREDMAN (PRESIDENT ALUMNI ASSOC)
- RAINA MCNUTT (PRESIDENT PARENTS' ASSOC)
Highest reported compensation
- ANNE EVERS (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $232,462 total reported compensation
- CHRISTINE TARPLEY-STOFER (DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION): $125,920 total reported compensation
- GENETHA MCROY (WILSON TRAINER & SUPERVISOR): $122,155 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Uses research-based methods to help students with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning disabilities reach their highest potential. at Churchill Center & School is to give high potential children with learning disabilities the finest, individualized, remedial education and the support they need to achieve success and return to a traditional classroom... And to foster greater understanding and support for all people with learning disabilities by training other educators, supporting our families and enlightening the community. Recognized on a local and national level for excellence in learning disability education, Churchill is a Wilson® Accredited Partner with certification from the International Dyslexia Association® (IDA). Our Accreditations Include:.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education of students with specific learning disabilities: 148 day school students, 61 summer school students
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.5 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.97; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.6%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 39th 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: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 31 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.