Fellowship Christian School
Legal name: Fellowship Christian Schoolinc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463101552
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Germantown, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3015403110
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,830,979
- Expenses
- $1,885,557
- Assets
- $1,585,526
- Liabilities
- $3,785
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- EUN JUSTER (PRINCIPAL): $83,145 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are a non-profit preschool, elementary school and a daycare. Our goal is to provide early education so that children are prepraed to get intergrade to school life and provide working parents with pursuing their career. Fellowship Christian School began as the brainchild of New Covenant Fellowship Church in the fall of 2003 as a preschool program. Ten years later, the first kindergarten class met and the elementary classes grew from there. In 2018, the first elementary graduates walked across the platform, having completed their course of study (PK3-5th grade) at FCS. We continue our mission that was laid before us almost 20 years ago. Classrooms with a personalized touch, an atmosphere where discipline and structure are used as a means to train students to be their best, professional teachers with an abundance of the love of Christ driving them each day, administration that works...
What it reported doing in 2024
We are a non-profit preschool, elementary school and a daycare. Our goal is to provide early education so that children are prepraed to get intergrade to school life and provide working parents with pursuing their career.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.5%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.69 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 97.5% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.