Phcs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520941934
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Perry Hall, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4102564886
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,166,660
- Expenses
- $4,537,135
- Assets
- $4,392,717
- Liabilities
- $1,818,064
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY FINNERAN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AMY FINNERAN (PRESIDENT)
- JOY KRACK (VICE PRESIDE)
- JOSH OVERHOLT (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
The mission of perry hall christian school is to provide a faith based college preparatory education for preschool though 12th grade students with a focus on training students to see all of life and learning through the lens of a biblical window.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization receives tuition to manage and operate a private christian school serving the baltimore area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.2%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70% of revenue deployed · 79.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.