Pacific Charter Institute

Overview

Mission

Pacific Charter Institute empowers students to take charge of their education by connecting their individual needs and interests to a rigorous learning plan, thus creating self-motivated responsible citizens, critical problem solvers, and lifelong learners. Homeschool Support We believe children deserve the opportunity to discover their own path. Homeschooling provides families the freedom to explore and individualize curriculum based on different learning styles. Pacific Charter Institute credentialed teachers work cooperatively with parent educators to develop an individual student learning plan and meet with the family at least once every 20 school days. All of our charter schools offer homeschool support, geography being the predominant factor in student placement. All PCI homeschool.

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.

Distribution model

Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 82
• Transparency & Controls: 60
• Accountability: 86
• Sustainability: 39
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 94.1% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $52.1M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $268K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.5M reported
• Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
• Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
• Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 16 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesAccounting column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization could not be resolved against the register, so the check is unfinished.