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CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST

CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,950 to it, the largest being FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ($14,850). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$526k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$34k
Net assets
$355k
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Chesterton Academy of Saint John the Evangelist does

Mission

The mission of Chesterton Academy is to help parents raise up a new generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In Fall of 2024, the school will provide a classical education based in the Catholic faith for the first time to students in Charlottesville. This fiscal year has been about generating the fundraising and hiring the staff to pursue this accomplishment. The school will be able to provide scholarships for 80% of the student body in the first academic year. This education will be given in an affordable manner.

    $38,813 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,813.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($328k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($248k)2025 Revenue 160 ($526k) Expenses 520 ($418k) Net assets 143 ($355k)
20242025
Revenue (160)Expenses (520)Net assets (143)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 2024 to 2025, from $251k to $358k (+43%).

$251k
$358k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$248k
’24
$108k
’25
10
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

Leah Hernandez

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed88
Joined·+1
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST’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

CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST.

44%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

56% of CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST'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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.

OK

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k 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

CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin20% · above the median
Months of reserve10.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)60% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education 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

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 16%Fundraising 4%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST?
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,950 to it, the largest being FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ($14,850). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $33,950 in grants to CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST.
Who is the largest funder of CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST?
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 3 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