Homeschool Resource Center Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852863725
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lake Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 6367557444
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,540
- Expenses
- $55,818
- Assets
- $6,314
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Casey Garcia (Board President)
- Brooke Flint (Vice President)
- Amy Fila (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Casey Garcia (Board President)
- Brooke Flint (Vice President)
- Amy Fila (Executive Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Growing Tree Resource Center is organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes. The organization provides academic enrichment classes, workshops, and collaborative learning opportunities for homeschool students and families in the surrounding community. Programs include instruction in subjects such as science, literature, writing, mathematics, history, arts, and life skills through small group classes and hands on learning experiences. Growing Tree supports parents who serve as the primary educators of their children by providing access to qualified instructors, structured educational experiences, and opportunities for social learning. The organization fosters a supportive learning community that encourages curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration while complementing home based education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Growing Tree offers educational workshops, short term courses, and special learning events that provide additional opportunities for students to explore subjects in greater depth. Workshops may include science labs, writing instruction, life skills, creative arts, and project based learning experiences. These programs are designed to complement homeschool curricula and encourage curiosity and engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.4%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 98.5%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -20.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -56.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.4% of revenue deployed · 98.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $55K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.