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CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN

CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,878,350 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($1,382,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$3.3M
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Charlotte Mason Schools International In does

Mission

Ambleside school of fredericksburg is a private christian school intentionally forming habits in students based on the philosophy of charlotte mason (1842-1923). The school provides a broad and varied curriculum of inspirational and disciplinary subjects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Ambleside school of fredericksburg educated students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The school also served as a training facility and model school for other teachers and administrators seeking to provide an education in line with the charlotte mason philosophy.

    $2,264,762 spentof which $338,914 as grants$1,472,585 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,264,762.

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 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($962k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 94 ($1.6M) Expenses 123 ($1.2M) Net assets 130 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 68 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($1.1M) Net assets 131 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 142 ($1.4M) Net assets 167 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 178 ($3.0M) Expenses 153 ($1.5M) Net assets 284 ($3.7M)2023 Revenue 99 ($1.7M) Expenses 212 ($2.0M) Net assets 257 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 128 ($2.2M) Expenses 237 ($2.3M) Net assets 253 ($3.3M)2025 Revenue 146 ($2.5M) Expenses 268 ($2.6M) Net assets 252 ($3.3M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (268)Net assets (252)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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $5.4M (+33%).

$2.9M
$3.5M
$3.7M
$4.1M
$5.4M
$5.0M
$5.2M
$4.9M
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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

26% of CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 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.

$724k
’18
$394k
’19
$11k
’20
$316k
’21
$1.5M
’22
−$378k
’23
−$122k
’24
−$124k
’25
0.7
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

Russ York

Executive director

Board chair

Scott Eilers

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed78877888
Joined·+2+3+1+4+2+0+0
No longer listed·1324100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $37k → $317k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN’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

CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

81% 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 CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN.

74%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 68% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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

25% of CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

81% of CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN'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 $358k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.

KY
TX

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

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’19
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN's revenue grew 46% between 2018 and 2025.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 9%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN?
CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,878,350 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ($1,382,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,878,350 in grants to CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,382,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLOTTE MASON SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL IN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 9 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