Maryland · Nonprofit
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,668 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($583,700). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Cambridge School Inc does
Mission
At cambridge school, we believe it is our responsibility to help develop in our students the capacity and character required to live out their god-given destinies. In preparing them for high school and beyond, we partner with parents to educate our students' hearts and minds in both virtue and truth. We value the whole child, and see each as being wonderfully and fearfully made in the image of god. Our educational principles are based on the strong belief that each child is uniquely gifted. We rely on a christ-centered, integral, and classical curriculum, which allows each of our students to take advantage of time-tested material in achieving personal excellence, while seeing god's omnipresence as well as their own infinite connections to the world around them. We believe there is joy in the educational process; thus, we also seek to inspire in our children engagement in a life-long learning process that is defined by thinking deeply and knowing god's voice and his truth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cambridge school seeks to develop in our students the capacity and character required to live out their god-given destinies as they proceed to high school and beyond.
$1,916,760 spent$2,129,196 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,916,760.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $4.7M (+33%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of CAMBRIDGE 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. 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.
Board chair
Amy Lynch
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $66k → $190k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 CAMBRIDGE 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
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 50% · 2019 36% · 2020 68% · 2021 54% · 2022 56% · 2023 70% — 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
67% of CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 91% 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
60% of CAMBRIDGE 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 $592k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $905k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAMBRIDGE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC?
- CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,496,668 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($583,700). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,496,668 in grants to CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $583,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 11 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