Fort Caroline Baptist Academy
Legal name: Ft Caroline Baptist Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 593526632
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Jacksonville, FL, United States
- Phone
- 904-642-3210
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $465,631
- Expenses
- $561,655
- Assets
- $99,331
- Liabilities
- $235
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Harold Jones (President / Director)
- Pamela Becker (Vice President / Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Evelynn B Livingston (Academy Director): $67,661 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Fort Caroline Baptist Academy is to provide a secure, loving and disciplined environment where children can grow to their greatest potential. We desire to help all children regardless of family, religious or ethnic background to know God’s love. guiding stars of duval The mission of _**Fort Caroline Baptist Academy**_ is to provide a secure, loving and disciplined environment where children can grow to their greatest potential. The curriculum provides daily systematic phonological and phonemic awareness instruction through an intentional progression to focus on complex skills. Each fast-paced lesson includes embedded instructional support and modeling, differentiated instruction, opportunities to build alphabet knowledge activities, and phoneme-grapheme connections....
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide Early Childhood Education for 92 Students, Employing 24 Staff and 2 Admin, Weekly Chapel Services, Religious Education and Music
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -20.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th 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: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $562K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.