Grace Christian School
Legal name: Grace Christian School Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043368587
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bennington, VT, United States
- Phone
- 802-447-2233
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,707,586
- Expenses
- $2,294,655
- Assets
- $3,697,770
- Liabilities
- $20,019
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SPIKE WHITMIRE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- SPIKE WHITMIRE (PRESIDENT)
- TODD GILE (VICE PRESIDE)
- PAULA LAROCHE (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. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grace Christian School inspires each student to live with character, learn with excellence, and love with the hands of Jesus. From its founding, GCS has been a community effort. The sense of community is felt when you walk in the door. Students and their families make lifelong friends at school. Parents are encouraged to be a part of their child’s education including helping in classrooms, volunteering, and chaperoning events and field trips. Our Parent Teacher Fellowship provides enrichment to our school community through sponsoring our First Day Celebration, Spirit Week, Field Day, and special speakers. The staff at GCS desire to partner with parents as we together raise children to success. Credentials Grace Christian School is an Approved Independent School for pre-school, elementary, and secondary education in.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grace christian is a non-denominational state recognized school for grades k-12 serving approx 200 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 77% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.9%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 68.7%; rating input score 69
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 58.9% of revenue deployed · 68.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.