River City Christian School
Legal name: River City Fellowship Christian School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742844287
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, United States
- Phone
- 210-384-0297
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Specialized Education Institutions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $474,959
- Expenses
- $453,812
- Assets
- $3,111,981
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EZZARD CASTILLO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- ERIC VOSBURGH (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DONNA CASTILLO (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $90,000 total reported compensation
- Kevin Adams (Board Member): $38,000 total reported compensation
- EZZARD CASTILLO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $38,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
River City Christian School provides a Christ-centered environment in order to educate students who learn differently, thus offering hope to their families. Scriptural Principle. Specialized Teacher Training:** Powerline teachers undergo ongoing training and monthly support to ensure high-quality instruction. Multi-Sensory Techniques:** Uses visual, auditory, and perceptual training, along with laterality training, sequencing, and memory development. Empowering Students for Life:** More than just a reading program—Powerline equips students with essential skills for long-term academic and personal success.
What it reported doing in 2024
River city christian school specializes in educating students, from pre-k through 12th grade, who have learning differences, which include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), dyslexia, dyscalcula, asperger's disorder and central auditory processing disorder, among other learning challenges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.5%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 4.5%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.86; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -18.1% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $454K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $90K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.