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Legacy of Grace School Tuition Org

To solicit contributions from the general public in order to provide scholarships to families to assist with tuition costs in grades K-12 of accredited, non-public schools located in the State of Iowa.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.3M
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $302k
$41,935
Median grant
1
States reached
$557k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$124,728
OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$118,277
NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$59,139
OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$41,935
PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$32,258
SULLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$29,032
CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN$18,573
IACS$6,607
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $181k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $59k → 9%CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN: $38k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $144k → 10%OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $63k → 16%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $173k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $54k → 9%CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN: $36k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $144k → 10%OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $58k → 16%PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $168k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $52k → 9%CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN: $32k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $139k → 10%OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $54k → 16%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $152k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $41k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $134k → 10%OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $53k → 16%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $141k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $40k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $132k → 10%OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $52k → 16%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $136k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $38k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $129k → 10%OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $42k → 16%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $134k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $35k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $118k → 10%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $132k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $33k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $109k → 10%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $125k → 8%NEWTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $32k → 9%OSKALOOSA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $107k → 10%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $113k → 8%SULLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $29k → 9%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $102k → 8%PELLA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $87k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $46k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $43k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $38k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $36k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $32k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $31k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $30k → 8%PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $29k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$4.3M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OS
    OSKALOOSA SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +98%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +276%
  • NC
    NEWTON CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL ASSN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $383k · revenue +117%

Funded once

    How this is measured

    Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

    04Its field

    Closest unfunded matches

    The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

    1
    Omaha Christian Academy

    K-8 school

    —
    2
    Sioux Center Christian School

    Christian education grade school

    Education
    3
    North Iowa Christian School

    Provide high quality christian education from a christian worldview in grades k-12 in north iowa keeping it financially affordable.

    —
    4
    Cornerstone Christian School

    The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.

    —
    5
    Pipe Creek Christian School

    Educational nbsp;christian nbsp;school

    Education
    6
    Apple Valley Christian School

    Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum

    Education
    7
    Conway Christian School

    Quality education from a biblical perspective.

    Education
    8
    Tipton Christian School

    Education and instruction for grades k-6th

    Education
    9
    Kentucky Christian School Inc

    Education of students from preschool to 12th grade

    —
    10
    Pacific Point Christian Schools

    Pacific point christian schools partners with parents in educating and nurturing students minds and hearts for use in god's kingdom now and in the future.

    Education
    11
    Pasadena Christian School

    The primary mission of the school is to provide its students with the academic training and spiritual nurture needed to become men and women who are worthy representatives of our lord jesus christ.

    Education
    12
    Covenant Christian School

    Covenant Christian School exist to partner with Christian parents in training their children: to provide quality Christ-centered academic education for children, and to actively promote service in the local church, community and nation.

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oskaloosa Society for Christian Instruction; the most unlike its peers is Sully Christian School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

    How this is measured

    Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    7
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    10/10
    Grantees still filing
    8/10
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    OSKALOOSA SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION: $1,155,680 · EducationOSKALOOSA SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTIONTHE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $1,120,766 · EducationTHE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSOTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WHITE: $321,476 · EducationOTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WHITEPEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $305,057 · EducationPEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLCENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $232,108 · EducationCENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSULLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $164,657 · Education+2 more: $54,891 · EducationPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $522,704 · OtherPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SC…NEWTON CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL ASSN: $383,190 · OtherNEWTON CHRISTIAN DAY SCH…
    Education$3,354,635Other$905,894

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOSKALOOSA SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION: $1,155,680 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $1,120,766 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetPELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL: $522,704 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetNEWTON CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL ASSN: $383,190 over 9y, 10% of budgetOTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WHITE: $321,476 over 6y, 13% of budgetPEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $305,057 over 9y, 10% of budgetCENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $232,108 over 9y, 15% of budgetSULLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $164,657 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetIOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $30,749 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetIOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $24,142 over 4y, 7.8% of budget
    Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

    A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

    • Who funds OSKALOOSA SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
    • Who funds THE SOCIETY OF PELLA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
    • Who funds PELLA CHRISTIAN GRADE SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds NEWTON CHRISTIAN DAY SCHOOL ASSN ↗
    • Who funds OTTUMWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WHITE ↗
    • Who funds PEORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds CENTRAL IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds SULLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds IOWA ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
    • Who funds IOWA ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗

    Co-funders

    Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Legacy of Grace School Tuition Org funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legacy of Grace School Tuition Org. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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      Find your warmest path to Legacy of Grace School Tuition Org through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

      Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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