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ASCENSION ACADEMY INC

EIN 87-2864984 CUMBERLAND, WI

Largest nonprofits in Wisconsin

Revenue 2024
$720,507
Expenses 2024
$705,293

Program services were 74.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B20
Classification
1270
Street
825 8TH AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

ASCENSION ACADEMY, AS AN EXTENSION OF THE CHRISTIAN HOME, SEEKS TO PROVIDE BIBLICALLY-BASED INSTRUCTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT SO THAT EVERY STUDENT MAY REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL TO THE GLORY OF GOD.

  • ASCENSION ACADEMY BEGAN IN THE FALL OF 2022 WITH STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH SIXTH GRADE. NOW ENTERING ITS FOURTH SCHOOL YEAR, ASCENSION OFFERS PROGRAMMING FOR STUDENTS IN 4K THROUGH 8TH GRADE. THE SCHOOL HAS BEEN ADMITTED INTO THE WISCONSIN PARENTAL CHOICE PROGRAM, WHICH PROVIDES TUITION VOUCHERS TO INCOME-QUALIFIED FAMILIES. ASCENSION ACADEMY IS ACCREDITED BY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL (CSI) AND OFFERS A RIGOROUS ACADEMIC PROGRAM TAUGHT FROM A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW. STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN DAILY BIBLE CLASSES AND WEEKLY CHAPEL SERVICES, FOSTERING BOTH SPIRITUAL AND ACADEMIC GROWTH.

    Expenses $523,070 · Revenue $319,704

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Robert Ruppel

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janelle Hagan

    VICE PRESIDE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Peterson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Westendorf

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bob Schauf

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Al Ruppel

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $720,507
    Expenses
    $705,293
    Contributions
    $399,517
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $433,057
    Expenses
    $463,798
    Contributions
    $296,839
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $384,506
    Expenses
    $308,831
    Contributions
    $297,596
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.