Tennessee · Nonprofit
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $392k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $179k
What Chesterton Academy of Saint Margaret Clitherow does
Mission
Our mission is to form joyful disciples through an outstanding, integrated education centered on the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, with GK Chesterton as a model of lay spirituality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chesterton Academy of Saint Margaret Clitherow (CAMC) operated a school during the fiscal year. CAMC had 10 students and 3 full time and 3 part time teachers. Our students tested in the top 1% of the country in the CLT, ARK, and National Latin Exam.
$282,072 spentof which $17,900 as grants$132,529 earned by the program72% of program spendingDuring this fiscal year, the Chesterton Academy of Saint Margaret Clitherow (CAMC) submitted 100% of the accreditation paperwork to the Chesterton Schools Network, one of only 17 out of about 70 schools to do so. This is the first major step towards full accreditation, which will not only attract more students, but also enable the school to participate in the Tennessee Education Freedom Scholarship Program, expanding the range of students who can afford to attend. The school is on track to achieve this milestone in the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2026.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe Chesterton Academy of Saint Margaret Clitherow (CAMC) moved operations to a new building, which allows for future growth to at least 50 students. This expansion took CAMC from essentially a one room school house to a building with 3 classrooms, a library, reception and office space, and multi-use room for holding mass, hosting lectures, dance classes, and drama productions, as well a plenty of outdoor green space for student activities like wiffleball, outdoor lunch, and chalk arts festival. Renovations were involved to make the space functional and up to code for a school and about $12,500 materials and $37,500 labor were donated to make the efforts affordable for our young school. This growth has attracted strong students, scoring in the top 1% of the country in the CLT.
$108,082 spent28% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $390,154.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $122k to $239k (+96%).
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.
63% of CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Rory DuPont
Board Chair (July-Oct)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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) — 95% 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 MARGARET CLITHEROW’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 MARGARET CLITHEROW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 MARGARET CLITHEROW.
“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
95% of CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $85k 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.
Against its field
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW?
- CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% 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 MARGARET CLITHEROW have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $89,500 in grants to CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF SAINT MARGARET CLITHEROW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2023–2025), 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