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Christian Life Preparatory School

Christian Life Preparatory School (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,239 to it, the largest being Star Sponsorship Program Inc ($147,145). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.1M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$273k
Net assets
$136k
4/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Christian Life Preparatory School does

Mission

Christian Life Prepatory School provided 12 months of college prepatory educational instruction for 360 students in grades K through 12.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Christian Life Prepatory School provided 12 months of college prepatory educational instruction for 364 students in grades K through 12.

    $2,925,014 spent$3,143,139 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,925,014.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets -43 ($-42183)2018 Revenue 107 ($1.7M) Expenses 110 ($1.7M) Net assets -68 ($-66049)2019 Revenue 135 ($2.1M) Expenses 125 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($97k)2020 Revenue 137 ($2.2M) Expenses 130 ($2.1M) Net assets 225 ($219k)2021 Revenue 141 ($2.2M) Expenses 144 ($2.3M) Net assets 192 ($186k)2022 Revenue 151 ($2.4M) Expenses 159 ($2.5M) Net assets 74 ($71k)2023 Revenue 168 ($2.6M) Expenses 172 ($2.7M) Net assets 13 ($13k)2024 Revenue 199 ($3.1M) Expenses 192 ($3.0M) Net assets 141 ($136k)
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Revenue (199)Expenses (192)Net assets (141)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 2022 to 2023, from $225k to $1.0M (+363%).

$67k
$81k
$203k
$301k
$308k
$225k
$1.0M
$1.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

3% of Christian Life Preparatory School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’17
−$24k
’18
$163k
’19
$122k
’20
−$33k
’21
−$113k
’22
−$58k
’23
$123k
’24
0.0
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

Zachary Henry

President/CEO/Member

Board chair

Mark Crowell

Board Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed999109798
Joined·+0+3+3+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·0321201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $49k → $295.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Christian Life Preparatory School’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

Christian Life Preparatory School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

86% 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 Christian Life Preparatory School.

54%
largest funder
89%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 35% · 2019 97% · 2020 73% · 2021 59% · 2022 93% · 2023 100% — 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

43% of Christian Life Preparatory School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

100% of Christian Life Preparatory School's grant income comes from Texas funders.

RI
TX

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

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’21
’22
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Christian Life Preparatory School has grown faster than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Christian Life Preparatory School

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Christian Life Preparatory School?
Christian Life Preparatory School (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,239 to it, the largest being Star Sponsorship Program Inc ($147,145). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Christian Life Preparatory School have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $273,239 in grants to Christian Life Preparatory School, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Christian Life Preparatory School?
Star Sponsorship Program Inc is the largest funder on record, with $147,145 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Christian Life Preparatory School 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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