The King's Christian School
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 210721376
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Cherry Hill, NJ, United States
- Phone
- (856) 489-6720
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,632,961
- Expenses
- $6,673,389
- Assets
- $7,892,923
- Liabilities
- $4,208,242
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- STEPHEN P DILL (HEAD OF SCHO): $104,443 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In partnership with Christian parents, The King’s Christian School equips and strengthens students through education and example to stand firmly on God’s Word and to become servant-leaders who impact the world through a Christ-centered life. Throughout the year, the PTF supports the mission of the school through fundraising events. Through its fundraising efforts, the PTF has been able to provide state-of-the-art student computers for our library, Chromebooks for the elementary school, improvements to the school’s playground as well as other facility improvements. The PTF also funds an annual scholarship for graduating seniors. Relationship-Building Events The PTF hosts relationship-building events for our students such as the Butterfly Ball, Night with Your Knight, Pancakes & Pajamas Breakfast, and catered lunches at Thanksgiving and Easter. For parents and families we host the...
What it reported doing in 2024
Christian education provided for students in grades k-12, approximately 568 students enrolled during the 2024/2025 school year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 76% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.5%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.6%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 64.5% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $104K · 13 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $127K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 44/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.