Vine Christian Academy
Legal name: Vine Christian Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923519243
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Brentwood, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154928463
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,436,161
- Expenses
- $2,465,436
- Assets
- $150,124
- Liabilities
- $5,819
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA AUER (President)
- KIM CALABRESE (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- AMANDA AUER (President): $64,278 total reported compensation
- KIM CALABRESE (Vice President): $55,041 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Vine Christian Academy is a local team of educators and passionate followers of Christ dedicated to guiding families on their homeschooling journey. At our organization, we believe that education is not just about acquiring knowledge, but also about character formation and personal growth. We believe that every student is unique and has their own gifts, talents, and learning styles, and it is our mission to provide an education that meets each student's individual needs and helps them reach their full potential. APPLY NOW Vine Christian Academy. Vineyard is our 5 day a week homeschool option which provides families the flexibility of full-time homeschooling with the structure and support of monthly lessons plans. Vineyard families also join the Vine community for chapel, dances, and field trips, giving families and students a chance to connect and deepen relationships with other...
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2023 the organization launched it's homeschool program and partnered with parents to provide a christ-centered learning environment that nutures both spiritual growth and academic development. Through a combination of teacher-led classes, collaborative learning opportunities, and community events, students are encouraged to think critically, communicate effectively, and explore god's word and his world with curiosity and joy. Our program serves children from pre-k through high school, equipping them to grow in character, knowledge and faith.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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 - 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: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 57
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
- 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 40.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 87% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.