Valley Christian School

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
331753568
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Youngstown, OH, USA
Phone
3305995160
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,645,897
Expenses
$4,295,806
Assets
$5,522,330
Liabilities
$1,245,417

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Mike Pecchia (PresidentTreasurer): $53,691 total reported compensation
  • William Hoelzel (Chairman): $6,000 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Valley Christian School exists as a flourishing Christ-centered education system to transform lives by loving more expecting more and being more.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization provides a faith-based education for grade pre-k through 12th grade. The activity is conducted as a chartered nonpublic school in Ohio under the oversight of a board of directors through the president of the organization. Direct services are provided by certified and non-certified facility and staff. The organization currently operates two campuses in youngstown Ohio. The organization allocates 100 percent of its time to faith-based educational activiies. The organization is funded primarily 99 percent by tuition fees and state educational funds. 100 percent of the organizations expenses is allocated to faith based educational activities. The mission of valley christian school vcs is to transform lives through christian education. Vcs serves a primarily minority low-income and disadvantaged population of students who reside in a failing public school district. Vcs offers special education services to students who are identified with learning disabilities as well as gifted education services. The school offers athletic programs to students in grades 4th-12th grade as well as fine arts and stem programs. Because over 80 percent of the schools student population is considered low-income a full usda food program in the school provides free breakfast lunch and dinner to all of its students

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.3%; rating input score 80
  • Program expense ratio: 86.9%; rating input score 87
  • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.29; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.3% of revenue deployed · 86.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $54K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.