South Shore Christian Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 043226161
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2022
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022
- Location
- Weymouth, MA, United States
- Phone
- (781) 331-4340
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,319,648
- Expenses
- $3,357,342
- Assets
- $2,594,593
- Liabilities
- $1,138,797
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SEAN HUNLEY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RANDALL AAMOT (DIRECTOR)
- JOSEPH ARDAYFIO (DIRECTOR)
- GRACE CORNISH (DIRECTOR)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
South Shore Christian Academy is a Preschool–Grade 12 Christian school created to help families and churches establish children who are fully-informed Christians—able to live according to God’s call, defend their faith, and engage intelligently and graciously with others. Though it is essential that we provide the resources necessary to fulfill our mission with excellence, we realize the importance of maintaining a sustainable tuition structure for families. We expect that tuition increases will become incrementally smaller over the next five years. Does SSCA plan to seek grants or corporate sponsorships to help achieve these strategic goals? Are there any plans to develop an alumni network? Yes, we will be seeking additional funding from grant-makers and private donors. Our alumni network is actively being built under the leadership of Mrs. Ruth Dagley, with a quarterly alumni...
What it reported doing in 2022
The academy provides education from preschool through 12th grade. Approximately 291 students were enrolled. The core education is enhanced with many before and after school educational and athletic activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 68.6%; rating input score 69
- 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 69.2% of revenue deployed · 68.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.