Rising Stars Academy
Legal name: Rsa Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460834143
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Center Line, MI, United States
- Phone
- (586) 806-6455
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,103,759
- Expenses
- $4,041,976
- Assets
- $2,601,739
- Liabilities
- $1,355,737
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK PRENTISS (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DEBORAH PRENTISS (EXECUTIVE DI): $73,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Statement To be a place for intellectually and developmentally disabled adults to belong, and develop the necessary skills to participate at their full potential within the community. Work based skill-building day program. Our day program and workshops provide structure that will suit each person’s needs while promoting self-advocacy skills and personal independence. Program components include learning about employment processes, career exploration, hands-on experience and personal/professional skill building. Additionally, on-site and off-site internships may be available. We are committed to a safe, equitable and diverse learning environment where high achievement and lifelong success can be achieved through various learning opportunities, hands-on experience and through the development of personal skills. Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
What it reported doing in 2024
Restaurant/bakery/catering operation providing job skills training to students attending the rising stars academy, a Michigan public school academy. The rising stars academy is a public school for students ages 18- 26 with special needs providing a unique curriculum, with an emphasis in culinary arts and other food service occupations to prepare students for future gainful employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.7% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.