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Abilene Christian School Inc

Abilene Christian School Inc (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,618 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($250,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.5M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$700k
Net assets
$8.0M
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Abilene Christian School Inc does

Mission

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Abilene Christian School is a private primary and secondary institution of learning; offering curriculum which leads to a high school diploma recognized by the Texas Education Agency.

    $5,104,833 spent$4,877,901 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,104,833.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 116 ($5.0M) Expenses 98 ($3.7M) Net assets 132 ($5.3M)2021 Revenue 94 ($4.1M) Expenses 95 ($3.6M) Net assets 152 ($6.0M)2022 Revenue 132 ($5.7M) Expenses 111 ($4.2M) Net assets 185 ($7.4M)2023 Revenue 130 ($5.6M) Expenses 124 ($4.6M) Net assets 196 ($7.8M)2024 Revenue 128 ($5.6M) Expenses 142 ($5.3M) Net assets 205 ($8.2M)2025 Revenue 127 ($5.5M) Expenses 154 ($5.8M) Net assets 200 ($8.0M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (127)Expenses (154)Net assets (200)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $9.3M to $20M (+112%).

$5.2M
$6.5M
$7.6M
$9.3M
$20M
$21M
$20M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 22% · 2023 2% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

4% of Abilene Christian School Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$608k
’19
$1.3M
’20
$507k
’21
$1.6M
’22
$1.0M
’23
$232k
’24
−$253k
’25
5.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Greg Straughn

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed13151513131516
Joined·+2+0+0+3+3+1
No longer listed·002310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $45k.

11 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Abilene Christian School Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Abilene Christian School Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

94% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Abilene Christian School Inc.

36%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 40% · 2019 91% · 2020 73% · 2021 74% · 2022 38% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of Abilene Christian School Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

93% of Abilene Christian School Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Texas funders.

OK
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $649k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Abilene Christian School Inc is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Abilene Christian School Inc?
Abilene Christian School Inc (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $699,618 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($250,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Abilene Christian School Inc have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $699,618 in grants to Abilene Christian School Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Abilene Christian School Inc?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $250,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Abilene Christian School Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing