Northland Christian Education System
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352268086
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- (816) 548-2222
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,477,304
- Expenses
- $7,487,422
- Assets
- $25,608,406
- Liabilities
- $10,625,630
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEANNIE SCARBROUGH (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LORI BASKINS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BRYAN PREWITT (PRINCIPAL/SUPERINTENDENT): $98,007 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
NCES partners with Christian families and churches to provide a God-centered, discipleship-based school with academic excellence and a biblical worldview, equipping students to serve and influence the world for Christ. To maintain Christian unity, all Northland employees, volunteers, independent contractors, parents and students must agree to abide by Northland’s Statement on Gender, Marriage and Sexuality. Failure to do so will result in removal from Northland Christian. (Matthew 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 5:9-13; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17). Mission Banner Quote Core Values Statement of Beliefs _Non-Discrimination Policy_. We believe in the absolute necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit for salvation because of the exceeding sinfulness of human nature and that men are justified on the single ground of faith in the shed blood of Christ and that only by God's grace and through faith...
What it reported doing in 2024
Non-denominational christian school with an enrollment at the end of the 24-25 school year of 564 students in pre-k through 12.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 66% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.42; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 62% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $98K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 46/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.