Illinois · Nonprofit
DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,507 to it, the largest being BRIGHT PROMISE ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $87
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $0
What Deer Creek Christian School does
Mission
Deer Creek Christian School partners with families to educate children in academic, faith and character development for kingdom service.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Deer Creek Christian School partners with families to provide quality education from a christian perspective for students in preschool through eighth grade.
$7,250 spent100% of program spendingDeer Creek Christian School provides child care before and after regular school days to assist parents employed outside of the home.
Deer Creek Christian School provides a variety of extracurricular activities to help children grow in faith and character outside of traditional classrooms.
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,250.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $182k to $51k (−72%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $17.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN 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
DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 71% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
63% of DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN 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. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,507 to it, the largest being BRIGHT PROMISE ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,507 in grants to DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- BRIGHT PROMISE is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEER CREEK CHRISTIAN 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4 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