Fellowship of Christian Cheerleaders
Legal name: Fellowship of Christian Cheerleaders Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582220578
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Suwanee, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7702702208
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,839,431
- Expenses
- $1,811,637
- Assets
- $434,208
- Liabilities
- $67,248
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CARY COLEMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CARY COLEMAN (PRESIDENT): $80,833 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Christ Centered Cheerleading Excellence Worldwide. Short Term Mission Trips to the regions beyond those areas that is close in proximity to the USA. We will continue our 18 year ministry foundation that has been established in the Czech Republic. We will also continue our relationships in Slovenia and Croatia. These trips have been successful because of the obedience of the many FCC instructors and coaches who have answered the call over the years and the generous support of FCC friends. One of the goals of this initiative will be to try and underwrite the air travel for this trip each year. This is the largest expenditure and will allow us to continue to provide quality instructors to these camps. Donations earmarked specifically for this p.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization conducts cheerleading camps at which the trainers teach cheerleading and leadership skills and encourage campers to trust in jesus christ for salvation and to live according to biblical principles.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 44
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 97.4%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 96% of revenue deployed · 97.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.