Wildfire Academy

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
991086293
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Sugar Land, TX, USA
Phone
8324984741
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Primary, Elementary Schools
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$89,181
Expenses
$65,085
Assets
$35,564
Liabilities
$46,761

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Brady Eshleman (President)

People named in this filing

  • Brady Eshleman (President)
  • Alejandra Sagissor (Secretary)
  • Chris Herndon (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Providing primary and secondary education through a Christian Socratic and Montessori-based curriculum that fosters critical thinking and leadership.

What it reported doing in 2025

Community and Parent Engagement Programs Description: Wildfire Academy fosters a strong parent and community partnership to support student success. Services Provided: Parent meetings, student showcases, open house events, community events, and meetings with community leaders. Number of Persons Benefited: Within the school 11 families participated, outside of the school, it is hard to approximate the number of people who benefited. We were part of several community events such as Chalk Fest, Business Fair, Halloween, etc. where hundreds of people attended. Other Relevant Information: The academy promotes collaborative learning environment where families play a key role in their children? s education.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 27%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.31; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 91.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 56.4% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 133.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.