Idaho · Nonprofit
ALZAR SCHOOL INC
ALZAR SCHOOL INC (Idaho) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,041,935 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($11,540,728). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Alzar School Inc does
Mission
Its mission is to build leaders who positively impact the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Alzar develops leaders through immersion programs. Alzar programs sit at the confluence of engaging academics, cultural exchange, and outdoor adventure. We facilitate a learning community that fosters self-confidence, growth, and independence. We have watched students find their voice, become aware of education across academic disciplines and cultures, and discover they are capable of more than they imagined. As an extension to our programs we bring people together and learn through shared experiences on rivers and mountains.
$3,242,282 spentof which $457,893 as grants$2,359,298 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,242,282.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $7.9M to $12M (+56%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of ALZAR SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Kristin Bierle
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.1M.
15 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 ALZAR SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
ALZAR SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 ALZAR SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 99% · 2020 83% · 2021 81% · 2022 83% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of ALZAR SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of ALZAR 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 $485k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Idaho, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
ALZAR SCHOOL INC has grown faster than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ALZAR SCHOOL INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Base Patagonia · disregarded
- Confluences River Expeditions LLC · disregarded
- Watershed Experiences LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALZAR SCHOOL INC?
- ALZAR SCHOOL INC (Idaho) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,041,935 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($11,540,728). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALZAR SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $13,041,935 in grants to ALZAR SCHOOL INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALZAR SCHOOL INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,540,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALZAR SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing