Rockford Christian School
Legal name: Rockford Christian Education Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362469118
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rockford, IL, United States
- Phone
- (815) 391-8000
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,295,989
- Expenses
- $7,974,305
- Assets
- $17,739,301
- Liabilities
- $9,848,056
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DR JAHNA DUDA (HEAD OF SCHO): $173,422 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Rockford Christian is a private, nondenominational school dedicated to high standards of academic excellence and spiritual growth, cultivating biblically minded students who serve God to their greatest potential and impact the world for Jesus Christ. Founded in 1961, Rockford Christian is a private, nondenominational school dedicated to high standards of academic excellence and spiritual growth. Programming with purpose supports children's spiritual, academic, and social-emotional development. As beings created in the image of God, our relationships foster an environment in which students feel seen and heard for the unique individuals they were created to be - to know they were created on purpose for a purpose. It’s an opportunity with eternal significance and one of priority for Kingdom education. The mission of Rockford Christian School is to cultivate biblically minded students...
What it reported doing in 2024
Education for students in pre-school and grades one through twelve
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 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.4%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.22; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 77.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $173K · 10 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.