Redeemer Lutheran School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900713163
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2023
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Verona, PA, United States
- Phone
- 412.793.5884
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,691,051
- Expenses
- $1,528,803
- Assets
- $2,757,662
- Liabilities
- $21,910
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Connor Hagey (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Gail Holzer (Administrator): $97,001 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Redeemer Lutheran School provides a high-quality, Christ-centered, PreK - 12 education, rooted in the Holy Scriptures, and in doing so, proclaim the Gospel of Christ to all. A promising future:** Concordia University Wisconsin has launched the Concordia Promise, an initiative to support a variety of opportunities for advanced learning and higher education. As part of the Concordia Promise, students enrolled in Christian high schools and homeschool environments can earn up to one year of college credit completely free by taking dual credit courses. Concordia University, Wisconsin CollegeBoard. Redeemer Lutheran School provides a secure, nurturing environment that enables elementary age students to explore and experiment. Our curriculum, taught from a Christ-centered philosophy, instills a life-long love of learning. Students learn how to work together fostering a culture of teamwork...
What it reported doing in 2023
Redeemer Lutheran School equips students to make a positive impact by providing an exceptional education in a Christ-centered into all areas of a students life by training their mind body and spirit for His purpose
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - 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: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.8%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $667.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 43.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 50.8% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $97K · 9 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $101K reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.