Our Lady of the Cross
Legal name: Lc Strong Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852453350
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2021–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lebanon, PA, United States
- Phone
- 717-500-6800
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,116,309
- Expenses
- $1,085,248
- Assets
- $1,936,453
- Liabilities
- $686,965
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Monica Klynoot (Board Vice President)
- Rebecca Kleinfelter (Board President)
Highest reported compensation
- Deborah Waters (Head of School): $56,189 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our Lady of the Cross School is a Christ-centered Catholic school faithful to the Magisterium, imparting faith and reason through a traditional and rigorous Catholic education and partnering with parents as a community of faith to nurture the whole child. With the salvation of souls and academic excellence as core elements of our mission, Our Lady of the Cross School follows 15 Standards of Excellence set forth by the National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools. We train our students “to think intelligently, reason critically and wisely, and to express themselves with clarity and [...] Read more []( "Support or Apply"). []( "Support or Apply") Support or Apply To learn about admissions click HERE. To support our mission click HERE. To view our homepage click HERE.
What it reported doing in 2024
4th School Year completed. Developed, revised academic & school policies and procedures. Continued renovations of the school facility. Added additional academic & instruction space. Interviewed, selected and hired professional teaching positions. Enrolled, instructed and graduated students based on mission and State requirements.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 63% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 61
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.6%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 71.3%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th 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: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 2.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.6% of revenue deployed · 71.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $773K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 10 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $250K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 53/100.