Riverbend Christian School
Legal name: Riverbend Christian School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742811584
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, United States
- Phone
- 512 327-4067
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,551,926
- Expenses
- $1,327,256
- Assets
- $902,734
- Liabilities
- $142,426
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MELANIE TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MELANIE TAYLOR (PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN KENNEDY (PAST PRESIDE)
- PAT CASEY (BOARD MEMBER)
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
Let them come. Let them learn. Let them grow in grace. Since 1997, Alicia Donoghue has served the families of Riverbend Christian School, maintaining a warm, Christ-centered environment that supports both children and their parents. Passionate about children and their development, she applies her business and accounting strengths to ensure the preschool operates efficiently while maintaining the highest standards of care and early education. Our Board of Directors Pat Casey,** Director. Today, Riverbend Christian School carries forward the same mission that has guided it since the beginning: to partner with families, lead with grace, and provide children with a strong foundation of faith, character, and learning that will serve them for years to come. Back To Top.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization's program service accomplishments are to provide a loving christian environment in which each child can develop fully in all domains of life.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 87% 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
STRONG - 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: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: $60.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st 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: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.