The Classical Orchard

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
882340724
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Manhattan, KS, USA
Phone
7854773679
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$111,536
Expenses
$92,876
Assets
$44,397

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • EMILY WEDDLE (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • EMILY WEDDLE (PRESIDENT)
  • JENNIFER ALTWEGG (TREASURER)
  • AUBREY DURBIN (SECRETARY)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the orchard is to serve as a classically minded christian educational cooperative(co-op). Educational experiences are designed to support homeschool families.

What it reported doing in 2025

The orchard provides classically minded christian educational programming to support homeschool families. The co-op offers structured classes, enrichment activities, and community learning opportunities grounded in a classical education model. Through weekly instruction, parent collaboration, and faith-based curriculum support, the organization equips families with resources that enhance home education and foster academic, spiritual, and social development. These programs strengthen the homeschool community by giving students access to group learning experiences and giving parents tools to guide their childrens education.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 85% 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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 53.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $93K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 26/100.