Garden State Classical Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 612075127
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Marlton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 9163374385
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,000
- Expenses
- $78,641
- Assets
- $5,563
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brian Poppen (President)
- Albert Paulsson (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- John Kitrick (Treasurer)
- Brian Poppen (President)
- Melanie Collette (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
Garden State Classical Academy seeks to cultivate academic and moral integrity in each student through a content-rich classical curriculum, paired with intentional character development, in an environment that promotes lifelong learning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 72.9%; rating input score 73
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: 1.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 36%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 197.2% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 136.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 27.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 72.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.