Nebraska · Nonprofit
Cornerstone Christian Schools
Cornerstone Christian Schools (Nebraska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,934 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($265,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $432k
- Net assets
- $180k
What Cornerstone Christian Schools does
Mission
Cornerstone christian school educates children to become learners-equipped with godly character and biblical truth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cornerstone Christian Schools inc. Ccs is an approved school through the nebraska department of education. All teachers hold a state of nebraska teaching certificate and have a strong commitment to the lord jesus christ and his children. Ccs is operating as an approved school by complying with the provisions and participating in the annual compliance verification of nebraskas rule 14: regulations and procedures for the legal operation of approved nonpublic school. This set of requirements establishes minimum standards for the operation of nonpublic schools and supports the missions and goals of nonpublic education in nebraska while enduring a level of quality and equality of educational opportunity. This activity is conducted by certified administrators and teachers for the state of nebraska and supported by qualified staff. Ccs is a discipleship school committed to the academic spiritual and social growth of each student. Our students receive an excellent education in all academic subjects along with instruction in vocal and instrumental music art technology and physical education. Emphasis is placed on developing a relationship with the lord jesus christ and a biblical world…
$2,812,743 spentof which $150,840 as grants$2,777,657 earned by the program92% of program spendingCornerstone Christian Schools inc. Has a hot lunch and milk program. Hot lunch is provided daily and the students can opt to purchase hot lunch or bring their own lunch. The lunch is contracted out to a local catering company. The students do have an opportunity to purchase milk every day. The students buy a lunch and milk ticket at the beginning of the year and they replenish their tickets after they have used all of their funds.
$116,559 spent$99,831 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe students in grades 6th through 12th have the opportunity to participate in athletic programs such as volleyball cross country cheer tennis football swimming basketball archery track baseball and soccer. Ccs is a member of the frontier conference and operates its athletic program according to nebraska school activities association guidelines. These activities further the schools purpose by teaching the students teamwork and character.
$113,130 spent$60,654 earned by the program4% of program spendingProceeds from insurance claims and miscellaneous other program services.
$0 spent$20,985 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,042,432.
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 $503k to $1.1M (+114%).
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 11% · 2021 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Cornerstone Christian Schools’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $200 → $40k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $173k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cornerstone Cougars Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Cornerstone Christian Schools raised.
From the IRS filings of Cornerstone Christian Schools’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
Cornerstone Christian Schools leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
96% 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 Cornerstone Christian Schools.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 84% · 2022 70% · 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
25% of Cornerstone Christian Schools's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
79% of Cornerstone Christian Schools'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 $92k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $340k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Cornerstone Christian Schools has grown faster than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Cornerstone Christian Schools
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Cornerstone Cougars Inc · exempt
- Deep Well · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cornerstone Christian Schools: 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 Cornerstone Christian Schools?
- Cornerstone Christian Schools (Nebraska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,934 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($265,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cornerstone Christian Schools have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $431,934 in grants to Cornerstone Christian Schools, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cornerstone Christian Schools?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cornerstone Christian Schools find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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