Alpharetta International Academy
Legal name: Montessori Christian Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581765324
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Alpharetta, GA, US
- Phone
- (770) 475-0558
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,305,840
- Expenses
- $2,103,417
- Assets
- $725,805
- Liabilities
- $206,391
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ISABEL ELIASCHEV (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ISABEL ELIASCHEV (PRESIDENT): $140,350 total reported compensation
- SHWETA C PARKASH (TREASURER): $50,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To strive for excellence and to be committed to providing a quality Montessori Education for each child. Our goal is to nurture each child’s innate desire to learn in a kind and supportive way. We embrace DIVERSITY, welcome new IDEAS, and encourage CREATIVITY.
What it reported doing in 2024
The Montessori Christian Academy is a school that provides educational programming to approximately 150 students ages three to ten using the Montessori teaching methologies
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.1%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 72.5%; rating input score 72
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 66.1% of revenue deployed · 72.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.