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OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC

EIN 34-1196802 ELYRIA, OH

Revenue 2023
$9,267,078
Expenses 2023
$7,590,312

Program services were 79.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B24Z
Classification
2000
Street
8287 W RIDGE RD

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 · 2023

Mission

AS A SCHOOL DEDICATED TO EXCELLENCE FOR HIS KINGDOM, THE MISSION IS EQUIPPING DISCIPLES THROUGH EXEMPLARY EDUCATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE SCHOOL IS EQUIPPING DISCIPLES THORUGH EXEMPLARY EDUCATION.

  • OPEN DOOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (ODCS) IS A PREMIER CO-EDUCATIONAL, COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL SERVING CHRISTIAN FAMILIES IN NORTHERN OHIO. ODCS IS THE LARGEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND TOLEDO, DRAWING MANY STUDENTS FROM VARIOUS CHURCHES AND DENOMINATIONS. ODCS EMBRACES ITS MISSION OF "EQUIPPING DISCIPLES THROUGH EXEMPLARY EDUCATION." IN THIS MISSION, ODCS IS IDENTITIFIED AS A DISCIPLESHIP-BASED MINISTRY THAT FOCUSES ON MAKING CHRIST KNOWN THROUGHOUT EVERY TOUCHPOINT OF A STUDENT'S EXPERIENCE. THIS MISSION IS CARRIED OUT IN A CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS FOCUSED ON EDUCATING THE WHOLE STUDENT: SPIRITUALLY, ACADEMICALLY, ATHLETICALLY, ARTISTICALLY, AND IN SERVICE. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE LORD NEEDS SPACE TO MOVE IN STUDENTS' LIVES, AS TRANSFORMATION ONLY OCCURS WITH HIS PRESENCE AND BLESSING. GOD HAS COMMISSIONED ODCS TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF ITS STUDENTS. THEREFORE, EFFORTS FOCUS ON CREATING AND ALIGNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO MEET, GROW AND KNOW JESUS THROUGHOUT THEIR EDUCATION. TO FURTHER DEFINE THE MISSION, ODCS COMMITS TO SEVEN SHARED VALUES THAT SERVE TO GUIDE EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE ODCS CONTINUALLY PLACES CHRIST AT THE CENTER OF INSTRUCTION AND STUDENTS ARE BEING TRAINED TO BE WELL-FORMED DISCIPLES OF HIM. ODCS'S FOUR PATRIOT PRINCIPLES SERVE TO CAPTURE THE SHARED VALUES OF ODCS IN A MANNER THAT CAN BE REMEMBERED BY PARENTS AND STUDENTS. THERE WERE 747 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN PRESCHOOL, ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOL AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

    Expenses $6,041,317 · Revenue $6,692,271

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • SCOTT GIESBRECHT

    BOARD CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JENNY MCCLAIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT BROOKS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $4,220
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,220
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN GEVRY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • TODD WRIGHT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • JOE FLINNER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEVIN HOPKINS

    BOARD VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOEL BAKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $7,167
    From this org
    $2,795
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,372
    Hours/week
    3

  • DAVE ECK

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $2,469
    From this org
    $2,469
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • AMANDA REASER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONATHAN ABDUL

    BOARD PASTOR'S REP & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $2,497
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,497
    Hours/week
    2 + 55 related

  • MARK GEISSBAUER

    BOARD PASTOR'S REP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 55 related

  • DENVER DANIEL

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $149,525
    From this org
    $95,893
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $53,632
    Hours/week
    55

  • SUSAN SCHRODT

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $111,993
    From this org
    $101,470
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,523
    Hours/week
    58

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,267,078
    Expenses
    $7,590,312
    Contributions
    $2,378,511
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $14,172,334
    Expenses
    $6,810,197
    Contributions
    $8,477,297
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,796,045
    Expenses
    $5,348,194
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,187,549

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,199,567
    Expenses
    $4,676,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,343,158

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,080,496
    Expenses
    $4,259,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,693,897

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,442,607
    Expenses
    $4,066,718
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,407,650

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,006,719
    Expenses
    $4,006,163
    Assets (EOY)
    $991,319

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,769,342
    Expenses
    $3,911,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,029,588

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,726,472
    Expenses
    $3,508,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,321,148

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,675,097
    Expenses
    $3,548,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,013,224

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,351,874
    Expenses
    $3,339,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $871,348

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,384,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $844,779

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 on its 2023 return

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.