Illinois · Nonprofit
CLAPHAM SCHOOL
CLAPHAM SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,869,227 to it, the largest being PURSLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Clapham School does
Mission
Clapham School inspires students with an education founded on a christian worldview, informed by the classical tradition, and approached with diligence and joy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clapham School provided a christian classical education for more than 120 students from pre-kindergarten through high school.
$2,274,545 spentof which $568,445 as grants$2,133,967 earned by the program99% of program spendingArrowsmith program: tutoring children who need additional support in school
$30,480 spent$30,925 earned by the program1% of program spendingClapham School provided a christian classical education for more than 120 students from pre-kindergarten through high school.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,305,025.
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.
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 $1.1M to $2.5M (+124%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of CLAPHAM SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $293k.
7 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 CLAPHAM 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
CLAPHAM SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 CLAPHAM SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 61% · 2022 76% · 2023 34% — 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
67% of CLAPHAM SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
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
98% of CLAPHAM SCHOOL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $754k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
CLAPHAM SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLAPHAM 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLAPHAM SCHOOL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLAPHAM SCHOOL?
- CLAPHAM SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,869,227 to it, the largest being PURSLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLAPHAM SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,869,227 in grants to CLAPHAM SCHOOL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLAPHAM SCHOOL?
- PURSLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLAPHAM SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing