· Private foundation
Foundation for Christian Schools
ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY TO BENEFIT, PERFORM FUNCTIONS OF, AND CARRY OUT THE PURPOSES OF STILLWATER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OR PUBLIC CHARITIES WITH THE SAME PURPOSE.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| OAKS | $50,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIPS | $50,000 |
| STILLWATER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS SCHOOL | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +194% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SCStillwater Christian School5× · 2019–2024 · $942k · revenue +308%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · $690k · revenue +194%
- CCCOVENANT COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- OEOAKS EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -28%
- SMST MATHEWS PARISHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- YCYELLOWSTONE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
The mission of three oaks christian school is to partner with parents to educate and disciple children consistent with biblical worldview, teaching them to be lifelong learners able to discern, articulate, and defend truth in a compelling,…
The school is an independent, multi-denominational, biblically based christian school, that desires to work with families across the spectrum of the body of christ to produce a distinctively christian college preparatory environment.
In partnership with parents, hca develops students who impact the kingdon and their culture b employing a christ-centered curriculum taught with excellence by gifted educators who embrace the classical model of education. hca emphasized…
The mission of portersville christian school is to glorify god by preparing students to serve christ and instilling high standards spiritually, academically, socially, and physically. the school provides a high-quality academic program, a…
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
We are a k-12 christian school founded under the following (4) pillars: academics: we provide an amazing accredited academic program utilizing 100% certified teachers. schedule: we provide our students and their families an opportunity on…
Aiding parents in their responsibility to educate their children so that they may love the lord their god with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind and all their strength.
To provide a safe, grace-filled community where we learn the four core subjects (language arts, math, history, and science) all rooted in biblical truth and develop deep roots of faith in students, teaching them to see the world through…
Covenant provides a classical education that: imparts an excellent academic foundation and a love of learning. trains students to see and submit to the lordship of christ in every sphere of life and thoughtfully engage the world with a…
Christian heritage academy, an independent, parent-governed school, offers an exemplary education based on biblical values to children of christian families, equipping them to be lifetime followers of jesus christ.
As a support to evangelical christian families, the mission of christian community school is to provide an academically excellent, biblically integrated education which promotes christ-like character, preparing students to serve god and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Academy Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Yellowstone Christian College Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Stillwater Christian School ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds God's World Publications Inc ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PSALM 91 INC ↗
- Who funds OAKS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY IN ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gianforte Family Charitable Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Foundation for Christian Schools funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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