Rivertree Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452668753
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8174209310
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,459,546
- Expenses
- $2,971,211
- Assets
- $18,186,369
- Liabilities
- $130,722
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- JUSTINA JENKINS (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $124,718 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Rivertree Academy is to educate under-resourced students to live life well: following Jesus, thriving academically, and transforming their communities. Our vision is to end the cycle of poverty in every family we serve by educating students from Como to learn well, love well, work well, and lead well. We seek to build healthy and productive habits of mind, body, and spirit so that our children can break the cycle of generational poverty in their family and grow to become leaders in their community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Rivertree academy serves students living primarily in the lake como neighborhood of fort worth, Texas and approaches providing an excellent christian education with a focus of the whole child - spiritual, academic, and social needs. We've built our school on a foundation of academic (small classroom sizes with individualized attention; curriculum that goes beyond the basic core subjects) and social (trauma-informed care; mentoring; behavior management program) distinctives, setting rivertree academy apart from other local schools. With an extended day program, free meals, transportation and family engagement programs, we serve the whole child and their family.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 54.2%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.06 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.12; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.5% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 54.2% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.