Open Door Christian Schools
Legal name: Open Door Christian Schools Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341196802
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Elyria, OH, USA
- Phone
- 4403226386
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,244,882
- Expenses
- $8,309,891
- Assets
- $15,991,212
- Liabilities
- $1,280,228
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENVER DANIEL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DENVER DANIEL (PRESIDENT): $173,812 total reported compensation
- SUSAN SCHRODT (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $125,938 total reported compensation
- KEVIN FORD (DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT): $123,063 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Equipping Disciples Through Exemplary Education. Open Door Christian Schools (ODCS), founded in 1976, is a premier co-educational, college preparatory school serving Christian families in Northern Ohio. Our mission is to equip disciples through exemplary education. The mission of Open Door Christian Schools, our shared values, and Patriot Principles serve to communicate our purpose in a manner easy to be grasped by our school community. Our mission shares our purpose. Our shared values provide further definition to the mission, putting feet to the mission and moving it from a statement to a shared experience. Finally, our Patriot Principles serve to categorize our shared values to help our students, families, and staff recall the guiding p.
What it reported doing in 2024
Open door christian schools (odcs) is a premier co-educational, college preparatory school serving christian families in northern Ohio. Odcs is the largest christian school between cleveland and toledo, drawing many students from various churches and denominations. Odcs embraces its mission of "equipping disciples through exemplary education." in this mission, odcs is identitified as a discipleship-based ministry that focuses on making christ known throughout every touchpoint of a student's experience. This mission is carried out in a christian environment that is focused on educating the whole student: spiritually, academically, athletically, artistically, and in service. This is accomplished by acknowledging that the lord needs space to move in students' lives, as transformation only occurs with his presence and blessing. God has commissioned odcs to make disciples of its students. Therefore, efforts focus on creating and aligning opportunities for students to meet, grow and know jesus throughout their education. To further define the mission, odcs commits to seven shared values that serve to guide every effort to ensure odcs continually places christ at the center of instruction and students are being trained to be well-formed disciples of him. Odcs's four patriot principles serve to capture the shared values of odcs in a manner that can be remembered by parents and students. There were 807 students enrolled in preschool, elementary, middle, and high school at the end of the school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 62% 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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.3%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 32.1%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.2%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 53.3% of revenue deployed · 80.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $174K · 17 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $651K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.