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Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization

Scholarship grant for students from families with income of less than 3 times the federal poverty guidelines.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$359k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$17M
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $161k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $872k
$75,754
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$358,543
WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$261,774
NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO$251,555
SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOO$247,565
UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$201,156
ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$168,185
ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$120,243
CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL$75,754
SHELDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$71,601
NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$69,259
SANBORN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$67,797
INWOOD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$48,020
HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$47,057
IRETON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$27,023
TRINITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$22,540
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%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $266k → 11%SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOO: $248k → 13%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $260k → 11%SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOO: $246k → 13%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $226k → 11%SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOO: $213k → 13%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $222k → 11%SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOO: $157k → 13%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $201k → 11%SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOO: $154k → 13%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $184k → 11%WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $297k → 8%WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $262k → 8%WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $238k → 8%WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $174k → 8%WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $162k → 8%WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $153k → 8%WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $152k → 8%HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $149k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $319k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $304k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $285k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $252k → 8%ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $241k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $229k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $229k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $228k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $221k → 8%NETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHO: $210k → 8%ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $193k → 8%ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $177k → 8%ROCK VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $168k → 8%ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $196k → 8%ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $180k → 8%ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $178k → 8%ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $170k → 8%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $168k → 8%ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $157k → 8%UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $152k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $359k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $304k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $298k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $293k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $282k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $279k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $225k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $219k → 8%SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $159k → 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.
$17M · 17 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
0

Total granted

$17M
$0

Still filing today

76%
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

  • SC
    SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +85%
  • UC
    UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +117%
  • WC
    WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +42%

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
    Central Iowa Christian School

    Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.

    Education
    2
    Conway Christian School

    Quality education from a biblical perspective.

    Education
    3
    Kentucky Christian School Inc

    Education of students from preschool to 12th grade

    —
    4
    Christ Community School

    Christ Community School strives to provide a superior education in a warm, caring atmosphere that will equip students to serve and lead in Christ.

    —
    5
    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.

    —
    6
    Community Christian School of Weste Rn Nebraska Inc

    Encourage students to learn and apply god's truth while promoting academic excellence in a christian environment.

    Education
    7
    Temple Christian School

    Our mission at temple christian school is to glorify god by providing for students a christ-centered education marked by excellence and grounded in biblical truth.

    Education
    8
    Maryville Christian School

    The mission of maryville christian school is to partner with christian parents by providing an academically excellent, biblically-based education,producing students with distinctive christian character.

    —
    9
    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
    10
    Apple Valley Christian School

    Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum

    Education
    11
    Tipton Christian School

    Education and instruction for grades k-6th

    Education
    12
    Heritage Christian School Inc

    To glorify God by partnering with parents to equip students spiritually, intellectually, physically, and socially using Jesus Christ as our model.

    Religion
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siouxland Community Christian School; the most unlike its peers is Western Christian High 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

    14 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. 14 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    10
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    13/14
    Grantees still filing
    13/14
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,417,964 · EducationSIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,824,664 · EducationUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLSOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY: $1,436,014 · EducationSOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEYSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,432,991 · EducationSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLHULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $875,880 · EducationHULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSHELDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $600,837 · EducationSHELDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONCLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED: $394,806 · EducationIRETON SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION: $318,691 · EducationNETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $2,276,879 · OtherNETHERLANDS REFORMED CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCWESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,731,229 · OtherWESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,431,498 · OtherORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION: $577,594 · OtherSOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTIONNORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $433,537 · OtherNORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSOCIETY FOR PROTESTANT REFORMED EDUCATION OF HULL IOWA: $418,958 · OtherSOCIETY FOR PROTESTANT REFORMED EDUCATION OF HULL…CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY OF INWOOD: $272,072 · Other+2 more: $120,631 · Other
    Education$9,301,847Other$7,262,398

    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 budgetSIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,417,964 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetUNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,824,664 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetWESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1,731,229 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY: $1,436,014 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,432,991 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $1,431,498 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetHULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $875,880 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetSHELDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $600,837 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION: $577,594 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetNORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $433,537 over 9y, 11% of budgetCLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED: $394,806 over 5y, 12% of budgetIRETON SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION: $318,691 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY OF INWOOD: $272,072 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetKANAWHA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY: $65,111 over 4y, 12% 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 SIOUX CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds UNITY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds WESTERN CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION OF ROCK VALLEY ↗
    • Who funds SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds ORANGE CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds HULL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds SHELDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
    • Who funds NORTH IOWA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
    • Who funds CLEAR LAKE CLASSICAL INCORPORATED ↗
    • Who funds IRETON SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION ↗
    • Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY OF INWOOD ↗
    • Who funds KANAWHA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗

    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.

    Premier Communication…Barnabas FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
    Premier Communications FoundationIA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Premier Communications Foundation · Barnabas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
      9report 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.
      05Through Plinth

      Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

      How do I get to Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization?

      Find your warmest path to Northwest Iowa Christian Schools Tuition Organization 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 17 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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