Iowa · Nonprofit
DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (Iowa) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,810,225 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($5,525,520). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Des Moines Christian Schools does
Mission
Equipping minds and nurturing hearts to impact the world for christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Secondary education - to provide a quality christ-centered curriculum to grades 6-12. In addition to a variety of academic courses, extracurricular activities, including music and athletics, are offered for both middle school and high school students.
$5,437,691 spentof which $99,529 as grants$9,834,317 earned by the program37% of program spendingIn addition to providing an excellent, christ-centered education, we also seek to promote the development of the whole person through a variety of programs and activities. Students are able to compete in sports, fine arts, and academic competitions.
$4,197,628 spent$604,328 earned by the program29% of program spendingElementary education - to provide a quality christ-centered education to children in grades k-5. The program includes an academic focus as well as a focus on the arts and physical education.
$3,304,432 spentof which $29,642 as grants$5,523,447 earned by the program23% of program spendingChild care & preschool - to provide quality christ-centered child care to children ages 2 - pre-kindergarten and to prepare young students for kindergarten.
$1,589,418 spent$2,344,168 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,529,169.
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 $33M to $43M (+29%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 12 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $610k → $1.2M.
14 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 64% · 2019 67% · 2020 75% · 2021 42% · 2022 77% · 2023 58% — 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
38% of DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
55% of DES MOINES 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 $6.2M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like DES MOINES 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Des Moines Christian School Found · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (Iowa) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,810,225 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN ($5,525,520). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $13,810,225 in grants to DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- COMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN is the largest funder on record, with $5,525,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DES MOINES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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