Liberty Christian Academy of Sarasota
Legal name: Liberty Christian Academy of Sarasota Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874223162
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Sarasota, FL, United States
- Phone
- 941-886-4522
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $879,789
- Expenses
- $897,221
- Assets
- $685,087
- Liabilities
- $394,019
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- DANIEL BARSHIGNER (DIRECTOR)
- ALICIA BOUSMAN (CHAIR)
- WILLIAM BOUSMAN (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Liberty Christian Academy believes education is more than information—it is formation. Through a time-tested classical model and a distinctly Christian worldview, we train students to think clearly, live virtuously, and love what is true, good, and beautiful.
What it reported doing in 2025
Liberty christian academy is a christian school that provides christian education to sarasota, fl students starting 2022 with k-3rd grades with plans to grow through 12th grade. The academy's biblical education places the bible at the center of all learning, creating a truly christ-centered education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.4%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 41.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 38% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 53.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.4% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $734K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.