Pacific Christian Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270430776
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Federal Way, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2539432500
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,183,051
- Expenses
- $3,421,441
- Assets
- $2,659,013
- Liabilities
- $154,753
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL PATTERSON (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBBIE SCHINDLER (PRINCIPAL): $124,364 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pacific Christian Academy has been committed to offering families a superior Bible-based education that equips students to be socially relevant leaders who are fully prepared for higher achievement. We lead our region in diversity, educating students from all over the world. Our students enjoy learning about different cultures and exploring the values they share while understanding there are also distinct differences. Servant leadership is taught as students reach out to encourage and bless others. We support students at every grade level who need additional help to learn, and challenge those for whom academic learning comes easily. Our education is engaging, and we are constantly developing new, more effective ways of helping students retain content and develop skills. We prepare our students for higher education, always with a Biblical worldview. Dual and concurrent credit classes in.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pacific christian academy, formerly christian faith school, served approximately 150 families and 298 students from 20 different communities throughout the puget sound and five different nations from around the world during the 2024/2025 school year. Graduating seniors went on to attend colleges or universities of their choice. Pacifc christian academy is recognized by seattle metropolitan magazine as a top school in diversity for private schools in the puget sound. The school graduated 5 students from the 12th grade, many of whom graduated with honors and scholarships to universities. Students participate in a wide range of community outreach activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 76%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th 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: 75%; rating input score 75; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -7.5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 76% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $124K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.