Living Stone Christian Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992288868
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Mercedes, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9568549423
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,893
- Expenses
- $121,802
- Assets
- $16,909
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- CARA CHANELLE JACQUES (DIRECTOR)
- DR ROLANDO JACQUES (DIRECTOR)
- PRISCILLA ORTEGA (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
At living stone christian academy we are committed to creating an educational atmosphere that makes coming here an exciting experience, every day. Our programs are intended to empower students to tackle challenges and take on experiences that may be new to them while keeping learning fun and dynamic.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided comprehensive, faith-based (elementary to high school)education to students. Delivered a rigorous academic curriculum integrated with christian values, spiritual formation, and character development. Achieved a 100% graduation rate, with six graduates pursuing higher education.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 99.7%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 63% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 42.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.8% of revenue deployed · 99.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.