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DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,896,632 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND LUCY MALMBERG FOUNDATION ($5,333,333). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$23M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$9.9M
Net assets
$26M
17/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Dayspring Christian Academy does

Mission

To operate a private christian school for kindergarten through grade twelve.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Education of k-12 students in a principle-approach environment utilizing a notebook method consisting of approximately 350 students.

    $3,831,292 spentof which $144,500 as grants$3,216,424 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,831,292.

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 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.7M) Net assets 100 ($332k)2018 Revenue 108 ($3.1M) Expenses 105 ($2.8M) Net assets 177 ($589k)2019 Revenue 119 ($3.4M) Expenses 115 ($3.1M) Net assets 263 ($874k)2020 Revenue 112 ($3.2M) Expenses 115 ($3.1M) Net assets 284 ($943k)2021 Revenue 181 ($5.1M) Expenses 122 ($3.3M) Net assets 852 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 288 ($8.2M) Expenses 138 ($3.7M) Net assets 2167 ($7.2M)2023 Revenue 200 ($5.7M) Expenses 163 ($4.4M) Net assets 2564 ($8.5M)2024 Revenue 195 ($5.5M) Expenses 183 ($4.9M) Net assets 2769 ($9.2M)2025 Revenue 795 ($23M) Expenses 200 ($5.4M) Net assets 7973 ($26M)
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Revenue (795)Expenses (200)Net assets (7973)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 $9.9M to $27M (+176%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$2.0M
$3.3M
$7.8M
$9.0M
$9.9M
$27M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$145k
’17
$253k
’18
$284k
’19
$64k
’20
$1.9M
’21
$4.5M
’22
$1.3M
’23
$618k
’24
$17M
’25
11
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.

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Listed10101188991011
Joined·+1+4+1+1+1+0+1+1
No longer listed·13410000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $162k → $463k.

13 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’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

DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.

54%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 50% · 2019 50% · 2020 68% · 2021 60% · 2022 85% · 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

60% of DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

PA
KY
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M 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

DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin76% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 15%Fundraising 7%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

69%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,896,632 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND LUCY MALMBERG FOUNDATION ($5,333,333). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $9,896,632 in grants to DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
GEORGE AND LUCY MALMBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,333,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DAYSPRING CHRISTIAN ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 23 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