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CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,568,549 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($654,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$21M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Concordia Educational Foundation Inc does

Mission

Through god's grace, the concordia educational foundation works to preserve and grow financial gifts for concordia lutheran high school to ensure its continued support of the school's overall operations, individual programs and students' financial need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Concordia educational foundation, inc. Shall exist to provide financial assistance for qualified students attending concordia lutheran high school, and to provide for the general support and expansion of the concordia educational association of fort wayne, indiana and concordia lutheran high school. The cef may create and administer special funds for purposes related to concordia lutheran high school and its students and graduates which shall be administered in accordance with such agreements as are entered into with the donor and originator of such funds. All financially related activity of the cef shall be subject to the current spending policies of the corporation.

    $886,349 spentof which $886,349 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $886,349.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($948k) Net assets 100 ($15M)2020 Revenue 151 ($1.6M) Expenses 109 ($1.0M) Net assets 104 ($16M)2021 Revenue 234 ($2.4M) Expenses 108 ($1.0M) Net assets 113 ($17M)2022 Revenue 230 ($2.4M) Expenses 109 ($1.0M) Net assets 122 ($18M)2023 Revenue 65 ($676k) Expenses 102 ($963k) Net assets 120 ($18M)2024 Revenue 187 ($1.9M) Expenses 89 ($848k) Net assets 127 ($19M)2025 Revenue 284 ($3.0M) Expenses 117 ($1.1M) Net assets 139 ($21M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (284)Expenses (117)Net assets (139)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 $22M to $28M (+27%).

$16M
$16M
$17M
$19M
$21M
$22M
$28M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

26% of CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$91k
’19
$535k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$1.4M
’22
−$286k
’23
$1.1M
’24
$1.8M
’25
1.7
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed19181918171719
Joined·+0+3+1+1+1+7
No longer listed·122215
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $106k → $222k.

7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’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

CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

93% 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 CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.

42%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 91% · 2019 62% · 2020 82% · 2021 94% · 2022 38% · 2023 50% — 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 CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

53% of CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC'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 $735k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IN
CA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $834k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

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

Organizations like CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

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In Indiana

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 4%

Governance

17
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

IN

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Concordia Lutheran High School · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,568,549 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($654,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,568,549 in grants to CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $654,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONCORDIA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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