Essential Church School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463713156
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $98,553
- Expenses
- $102,578
- Assets
- $30,403
- Liabilities
- $3,909
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTY TRENT (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KRISTY TRENT (PRESIDENT)
- JAN HOLMES (DIRECTOR)
- KATHY MURRAY (SECRETARY)
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
Christian church school
What it reported doing in 2024
Is a christian church school offering enrollment for grades k thru 12
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 28
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 38.7%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 29% of revenue deployed · 27.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.