Michigan · Nonprofit
BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,870,181 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($426,150). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Byron Center Christian School does
Mission
The mission of Byron Center Christian School is to provide for children of the christian community an excellent education, rooted in god's word, prepraing them for lifelong service in god's kingdom. Byron center chrisitan school was able to educate 686 students for the 2025 fiscal year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Christian elementary school: pre-school through 8th
$4,491,678 spent$4,405,390 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,491,678.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $15M (+26%).
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 11% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $293k → $197k.
13 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $530k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Byron Center Christian School Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’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
BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 61% · 2019 58% · 2020 50% · 2021 49% · 2022 45% · 2023 36% — 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
44% of BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
84% of BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL'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 $300k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Byron Center Christian School Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Michigan) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,870,181 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($426,150). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,870,181 in grants to BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $426,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BYRON CENTER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 18 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