Zion Academy
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881485340
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Rockville, UT, USA
- Phone
- 4353397002
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $116,950
- Expenses
- $90,206
- Assets
- $285,456
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Eugene Garate (President)
- Brittany Oler (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Eugene Garate (President)
- Tydon Oler (Board Member)
- Brittany Oler (Vice President)
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
To operate a school that provides education and fosters the academic, social, and personal development of students in grades 5 to 8, including curriculum and enrichment programs that prepare students for high school and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2025
Zion Academy operated a private middle school serving students in grades 58. The school provided classroom instruction, curriculum, educational supplies, student activities, and a safe learning environment designed to support students academic, social, and personal development and prepare them for high school and beyond.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.1%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.16; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -71.7% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.1% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $90K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.