Grace Cascade Christian Schools
Legal name: Grace Cascade Christian Schools (Formerly Cascade Christian High School)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 930817076
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Medford, OR, USA
- Phone
- 541-772-1321
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,067,122
- Expenses
- $10,885,964
- Assets
- $45,471,356
- Liabilities
- $5,907,762
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ERIK RITSCHARD (HEAD OF SCHOOLS): $129,588 total reported compensation
- TIM TETERUD (PRINCIPAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL): $111,033 total reported compensation
- DAVE FENNELL (DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT): $109,285 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Belonging to a school community dedicated to educating students in a Christ-centered atmosphere while pursuing academic excellence and Godly personal character development. Grace Christian Schools has grown from a 1974 vision to provide faith-based education into one of Southern Oregon’s largest Christian school systems. Serving preschool through 12th grade, we partner with families to develop Christ-centered, confident, and capable students through strong academics, biblical teaching, and purposeful mentorship. Our three campuses—Grace Christian Elementary, Cascade Christian Middle School, and Cascade Christian High School—each offer beautiful, state-of-the-art facilities designed to support student learning, growth, and community.
What it reported doing in 2024
The extended enrichment program "ee" is a biblically based extended care program, providing exercise, a health snack, and homework time in a safe and comfortable environment. Ee's program is licensed by the state of Oregon early earning division, which follows the staff-to-student ratios, safety and cleaning protocols, nutrition guidelines and ongoing staff development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 68% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 91.7%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.18; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 91.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $10M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 17 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $777K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.