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BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC

BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,652,467 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($857,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$33M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$50M
15/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Briarcrest Christian School System Inc does

Mission

To challenge and inspire college-bound students to know and honor jesus christ, seek god's truth and wisdom in all disciplines, and pursue excellence and integrity in their academic, creative, and athletic endeavors so that they might grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Approximately 182 teachers taught approximately 1,752 students during the school term. The items shown as program service expenses furthered the students' education through student activities and services.

    $13,169,432 spent$30,057,272 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,169,432.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($22M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($25M)2018 Revenue 104 ($23M) Expenses 103 ($23M) Net assets 101 ($25M)2019 Revenue 110 ($25M) Expenses 97 ($22M) Net assets 113 ($28M)2020 Revenue 100 ($22M) Expenses 93 ($21M) Net assets 119 ($29M)2021 Revenue 103 ($23M) Expenses 95 ($21M) Net assets 126 ($31M)2022 Revenue 120 ($27M) Expenses 108 ($24M) Net assets 137 ($34M)2023 Revenue 141 ($32M) Expenses 116 ($26M) Net assets 160 ($39M)2024 Revenue 149 ($33M) Expenses 122 ($27M) Net assets 185 ($45M)2025 Revenue 149 ($33M) Expenses 129 ($29M) Net assets 203 ($50M)
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Revenue (149)Expenses (129)Net assets (203)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 2023 to 2024, from $85M to $94M (+11%).

$68M
$69M
$71M
$72M
$74M
$79M
$85M
$94M
$96M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

10% of BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$180k
’18
$3.0M
’19
$1.5M
’20
$1.7M
’21
$2.7M
’22
$5.6M
’23
$6.3M
’24
$4.5M
’25
12
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

Jamie Augustine

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181816181820192123
Joined·+1+2+5+3+6+3+6+4
No longer listed·14334442
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $20k → $159k.

10 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM 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

BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

75% 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 BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC.

52%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 54% · 2019 38% · 2020 49% · 2021 48% · 2022 82% · 2023 47% — 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

40% of BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM 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 $407k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Tennessee funders.

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

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

46% of spending goes to programs.

Program 46%Management 53%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Bcs Events LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC?
BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,652,467 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($857,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,652,467 in grants to BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $857,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 21 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