Core Academy of Science

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462447173
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Dayton, TN, USA
Phone
4234287811
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Science and Technology N.E.C.
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$95,832
Expenses
$125,003
Assets
$79,167
Liabilities
$957

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Todd Wood (President)

People named in this filing

  • Todd Wood (President)
  • Marcus Ross (Director)
  • Lucinda Hill (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To encourage young Christian scholars to explore the hardest problems in creation. To stimulate the mind of young people to think more about hard problems and less about easy solutions, while also reinforcing the importance of community while facing these challenges.

What it reported doing in 2024

The dissemination of our research as published in books, video, and other electronic media, to further educate others of findings important for critical solutions to problems.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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 total spending goes to programs and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 23
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.5%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 50.1%; rating input score 50

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -30.4%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.4% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65.5% of revenue deployed · 50.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.