Westminster Christian School
Legal name: Westminster Christian Private School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 596057154
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Miami, FL, USA
- Phone
- 3052332030
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,959,394
- Expenses
- $38,311,348
- Assets
- $88,117,235
- Liabilities
- $47,197,101
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT JONES (HEAD OF SCHOOL): $454,350 total reported compensation
- ROBERT LUNDGREN (CFO): $289,188 total reported compensation
- OMAR VALERIO (IT DIRECTOR): $152,126 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Westminster, we empower students to become lifelong learners who serve their communities by living out God's purpose for their lives. 1. Hires, supervises, evaluates, and supports the Head of School; 2. Develops the school's mission, vision, long-range and strategic goals and establishes school policies that reinforce them; 3. Provides fiduciary oversight;. 4. Guards the school's charter and mission and uses them as a guidepost for making board decisions; 5. Supports and oversees fundraising initiatives; 6. Accountable to Westminster for sound financial management, ensuring the financial stability and financial future of the school;.
What it reported doing in 2024
Full time educational instruction to children in grades pre-k - 12. Annual enrollment is approximately 1,250 students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.7%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.54; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 77.6% of revenue deployed · 87.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $454K · 19 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.5M reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.