Granville Christian Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471245702
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Granville, OH, United States
- Phone
- (740) 587-4423
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,411,382
- Expenses
- $3,706,806
- Assets
- $7,227,917
- Liabilities
- $4,943,567
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JOSHUA SEXTON (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $93,680 total reported compensation
- BRADLEY E PILKINGTON (VICE CHAIR): $4,090 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Granville Christian Academy is a K-12 private Christian school that aligns biblical truths, family values, and academic excellence—investing in students’ learning and personal and spiritual development so they can become servant leaders for Christ. At GCA, our faith is integral to our heart. We incorporate biblically based truth and teachings in all that we do, in order to support students, families, and each other to live out the calling God has placed on our lives, individually and together. We are a private Christian school that grows students into servant leaders. By focusing on whole-person development, we ensure our students don’t just excel academically, but that they are prepared for spiritual growth and leadership to impact the world. All of our students in grades K-12 study the Bible daily as a core class. They also participate in our weekly chapel services that are held...
What it reported doing in 2024
Granville christian academy is a christ-centered school committed to academic excellence and spiritual boldness in a nurturing environment. Gca operates as a christian k through 12 school in granville, Ohio. The employees of the school conduct activities of the school with the assistance from volunteers. The activities of the school take place year-round, although most activities occur during the academic year from mid-august to late may of the academic year. The schools activities are funded through tuition payments on behalf of the students, private donations and grants, and public auxiliary funds. The school equips students to effectively serve in their home, school, and community. Granville christian academy educated 318 students in the 2024-2025 school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.2%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
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: 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 72.2% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $94K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.