Rising Mountain Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 933373681
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 7655862723
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,239
- Expenses
- $52,575
- Assets
- $18,568
- Liabilities
- $904
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- KORINA CALLAHAN (BOARD CHAIR)
- IRENE SANFORD (VICE CHAIR)
- REBECCA CIRZAN (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We believe by building trust within a quality learning environment, all students can be successful without limitation.
What it reported doing in 2024
We are a microschool with a mission to help individuals in our flagstaff community with special needs. At rising mountain academy, we strive to provide the best possible education to our students by creating an environment that fosters learning, growth, and personal development that is an alternative to public school. We offer a k-12 educational placement for the academic school year and a summer camp including speech therapy, occupational therapy, music therapy, indoor/outdoor recreational therapy, and counseling with play therapy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.1%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.35; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.1% of revenue deployed · 92.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.