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Chaplains in Schools Inc

Chaplains in Schools Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $978,820 to it, the largest being STIMAC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($530,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$901k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$979k
Net assets
$113k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Chaplains in Schools Inc does

Mission

CiS is a spiritual resource for the schools. It provides chapel services, Christian discussion and prayer, relationship building, and administration of the sacraments.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The three main activities of Chaplains in Schools are chapel services, Christian discussion and prayer, and the adminstration of sacraments.

    $604,699 spent$900,990 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $604,699.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($121k) Net assets 100 ($61k)2019 Revenue 272 ($303k) Expenses 274 ($332k) Net assets 52 ($32k)2020 Revenue 347 ($387k) Expenses 265 ($321k) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 368 ($410k) Expenses 295 ($356k) Net assets 250 ($152k)2022 Revenue 474 ($528k) Expenses 408 ($493k) Net assets 209 ($127k)2023 Revenue 367 ($409k) Expenses 367 ($443k) Net assets 146 ($89k)2024 Revenue 645 ($719k) Expenses 522 ($631k) Net assets 235 ($143k)2025 Revenue 809 ($901k) Expenses 593 ($717k) Net assets 186 ($113k)
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Revenue (809)Expenses (593)Net assets (186)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 $93k to $143k (+53%).

$76k
$42k
$0
$158k
$131k
$93k
$143k
$143k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

35% of Chaplains in Schools Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’18
−$29k
’19
$66k
’20
$54k
’21
$35k
’22
−$35k
’23
$88k
’24
$184k
’25
1.9
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.

Chief executive

Paul Steinberg

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed7799978
Joined·+2+5+0+1+0+3
No longer listed·230122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $108k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Chaplains in Schools 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

Chaplains in Schools Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

54%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 66% · 2021 56% · 2022 72% · 2023 55% — 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 Chaplains in Schools Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

Chaplains in Schools Inc draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 2 states in all.

WI
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $515 arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Chaplains in Schools Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Chaplains in Schools Inc?
Chaplains in Schools Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $978,820 to it, the largest being STIMAC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($530,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chaplains in Schools Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $978,820 in grants to Chaplains in Schools Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chaplains in Schools Inc?
STIMAC FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chaplains in Schools Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2018–2025), 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