Pella Christian Schools
Legal name: The Society of Pella Christian Schools
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420772563
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Pella, IA, USA
- Phone
- 641-628-2414 (Grade School) / 641-628-4440 (High School)
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,040,404
- Expenses
- $10,781,871
- Assets
- $37,422,621
- Liabilities
- $716,764
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK VAN WYNGARDEN (PRESIDENT)
- JODI DE VRIES (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- MARK VAN WYNGARDEN (PRESIDENT)
- JODI DE VRIES (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MIKE FRANSMAN (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Pella Christian Schools provides Christ-centered education (Preschool–High School) designed to develop students’ gifts for a lifetime of service in God’s world. At Pella Christian High School, we are passionate about our mission to empower God’s children to join in His restorative work. Our team of dedicated educators is committed to living out this mission by fostering a culture that supports students’ spiritual, academic, and social growth. We are seeking a qualified educator who is passionate about world language instruction and Spanish language and culture. The ideal candidate will inspire students by developing students’ proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish; integrating cultural understanding into instruction; embracing collaboration; and facilitating high-quality, student-centered learning that equips students to.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education - to assist the family in establishing quality education centered in the bible for the development and growth of the complete person spiritually, academically, emotionally, socially, and physically.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 61% 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 total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 84
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.6%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 75.4%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,135.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.2%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.47; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 10th 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: 56.6% of revenue deployed · 75.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.