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Dayspring Christian Academy

Dayspring Christian Academy (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,169 to it, the largest being THE WELD TRUST ($213,458). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.1M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$561k
Net assets
$1.8M
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Dayspring Christian Academy does

Mission

Education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide general education of a christian nature to preschool, elementary, middle school and high school levels - approximately 505 students

    $6,943,662 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,943,662.

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 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($784k)2020 Revenue 109 ($4.7M) Expenses 117 ($4.7M) Net assets 98 ($767k)2021 Revenue 128 ($5.5M) Expenses 122 ($4.9M) Net assets 175 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 145 ($6.3M) Expenses 151 ($6.1M) Net assets 198 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 181 ($7.8M) Expenses 169 ($6.8M) Net assets 327 ($2.6M)2024 Revenue 165 ($7.2M) Expenses 177 ($7.1M) Net assets 331 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 165 ($7.1M) Expenses 196 ($7.9M) Net assets 229 ($1.8M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (165)Expenses (196)Net assets (229)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 $1.8M to $2.9M (+64%).

$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$2.2M
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

Government-grant reliance: 2023 19% · 2024 7% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of Dayspring Christian Academy’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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$287k
’19
−$17k
’20
$601k
’21
$180k
’22
$1.0M
’23
$27k
’24
−$794k
’25
2.8
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
Listed131213109108
Joined·+1+3+1+2+2+2
No longer listed·224314
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $214k.

3 of 7 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 38% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

74% 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.

38%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 49% · 2022 43% · 2023 63% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Dayspring Christian Academy's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CO

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

’17
’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k 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

Dayspring Christian Academy has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

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

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dayspring Foundation · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dayspring Christian Academy: 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 Dayspring Christian Academy?
Dayspring Christian Academy (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $561,169 to it, the largest being THE WELD TRUST ($213,458). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Dayspring Christian Academy have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $561,169 in grants to Dayspring Christian Academy, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Dayspring Christian Academy?
THE WELD TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $213,458 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 Colorado. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 7 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