The Peace and Justice Academy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263379091
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2014
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2014, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Pasadena, CA, USA
Phone
6263450504
Rating
92
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Secondary, High School
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$155,568
Expenses
$171,686
Assets
$12,691
Liabilities
$8,575

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2014. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • RANDY CHRISTOPHER (Director)
  • KIMBERLY MEDENDORP (Director)
  • LEVANT AKBARUT (Board Member)

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 2014. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Peace & Justice Academy provides a rigorous college preparatory education and unique electives from a Christian Peacemaking tradition to students in grades six to twelve. Students are nurtured in a safe, caring community in which they are awakened to the realities and challenges that will face them as adults, and prepared to stand for justice, wage peace, and impact the world.

What it reported doing in 2014

Students excelled at college preparatory coursework that met or exceededcalifornia state standards in english, math, science, social studies, and p.e. Students received instruction in the defensive martial art of aikido. Electives included restorative justice (conflict resolution), media literacy, theater arts and experiential workshops out in the community called peace & justice labs.students reached out to the community, both in service projects like feeding the homeless, and in investigating the causes of homelessness, poverty, and need andwhat we might do to reduce these problems. Looking globally, students raised moneyto fund a total of 60 micro-finance loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries around the world.students participated in a digital classroom providing laptop computers for all students, and integrating word processing, spread sheets, and internet researchthroughout the curriculum. Students became fully proficient in using power pointto make classroom presentations to their peers.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 11
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 96.4%; rating input score 96

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10.4%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.07; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -33.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $165K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2012 to 2014
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.