Kingsport Christian Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 383720352
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015
- Location
- Kingsport, TN, USA
- Phone
- (423) 335-5466
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $376,169
- Expenses
- $304,225
- Assets
- $125,673
- Liabilities
- $17,476
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDY CROW (PRESIDENT)
- JONATHAN MOORMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CYNTHIA CARR (DIRECTOR/ADMINISTRATOR): $25,603 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
KCA is a parent-based hybrid resource school that employs Christian educators to teach individual subjects two days per week, with parents homeschooling on alternate days, aiming to come alongside families educating from a biblical worldview. & Philosophy KCA consists of a parent-based resource school. As an organization subject to the Lord Jesus Christ, it seeks to help build the body of Christ through academic education and related programs necessary for a university-structured format. KCA endeavors to train and encourage believers, both young and mature, to worship their Lord and Savior by living in ever greater and more effective obedience to Him. This model is intended to work in partnership with families and other ministries of the church to provide Christian families with helpful resources necessary in the preparation of young believers for success as disciples of Christ in...
What it reported doing in 2024
Christian education of grade and high school students in science and arts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 25th 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $276K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $26K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 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 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.