Paideia Learning
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994268750
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Redding, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5202773302
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $223,819
- Expenses
- $203,990
- Assets
- $6,581
- Liabilities
- $67,188
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jeremiah Sims (Board President, Guide)
- Rachel Sims (Board VP, Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Jeremiah Sims (Board President, Guide)
- Rachel Sims (Board VP, Executive Director)
- Joseph Brodnik (Board Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Acton Academy Redding, we cultivate and curate an environment that is best described as a beloved community. Beloved communities are built upon radical freedom and radical love. For us, a beloved community is where learners are loved, affirmed, and supported so that they embrace the responsibility of their own educational journey. We are committed to developing courageous, community-minded, joyful learners through socratic guidance, multi-dimensional opportunities to encounter and overcome challenges, and strong connection with those around them. Acton learners are equipped with real life skills and experience to discover their calling, to thrive in an ever-changing world, and to make an impact wherever they go.
What it reported doing in 2024
Learner-Driven Education Program: Provided full-time learner-driven education for elementary, middle, and high school learners through self-paced academics, Socratic discussions, collaborative projects, exhibitions, and entrepreneurship experiences. The program emphasizes personal responsibility, critical thinking, character development, and lifelong learning.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 85% 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 43
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 96.2%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 10.21; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 96.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $204K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D other liabilities reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.