Keystone Christian School
Legal name: Keystone Christian School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473724243
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- El Paso, TX, USA
- Phone
- 915-229-0123
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $857,438
- Expenses
- $883,022
- Assets
- $100,072
- Liabilities
- $93,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Sandra Carranza (Director): $46,589 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Keystone Christian School is a distinctly Christian private school. At Keystone, we are committed to partnering with parents to disciple, teach, and train students to become world changers, providing Christ-centered academic excellence from grades K3 to 12. at Keystone Christian School is to disciple young people to transform their world through faith in God, knowledge of Biblical principles, understanding of those principles and wisdom for applying those principles to every aspect of their lives. Service Oriented With Christ as our example, our faculty and staff serve our students and parents. We know that students will learn the power of serving others by the example we set through Christ in us. We will teach students to look not only to their own interests, but also to the interests of others.
What it reported doing in 2024
Christian based school from kindergarten to high school.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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 filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 99%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 96.1%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.93; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.3%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 64.3% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 99% of revenue deployed · 96.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $849K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $47K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.