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EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,688,930 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($1,673,264). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$7.2M
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What East Linn Christian Academy does

Mission

Provide education to students from preschool through 12th grade

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide a christian learning environment to students through classroom and extracurricular activities

    $3,096,181 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,096,181.

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 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 111 ($2.4M) Expenses 113 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 123 ($2.7M) Expenses 113 ($2.4M) Net assets 108 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 119 ($2.6M) Expenses 115 ($2.5M) Net assets 112 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 157 ($3.4M) Expenses 119 ($2.6M) Net assets 141 ($4.2M)2022 Revenue 180 ($3.9M) Expenses 130 ($2.8M) Net assets 179 ($5.3M)2023 Revenue 205 ($4.5M) Expenses 159 ($3.4M) Net assets 214 ($6.3M)2024 Revenue 193 ($4.2M) Expenses 171 ($3.7M) Net assets 232 ($6.9M)2025 Revenue 184 ($4.0M) Expenses 173 ($3.7M) Net assets 241 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (173)Net assets (241)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 2021 to 2022, from $5.6M to $6.5M (+17%).

$4.5M
$4.5M
$4.7M
$5.0M
$5.6M
$6.5M
$7.4M
$7.8M
$8.1M
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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 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of EAST LINN 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. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’17
−$13k
’18
$250k
’19
$117k
’20
$859k
’21
$1.1M
’22
$1.0M
’23
$529k
’24
$280k
’25
5.6
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.

Board chair

Tonya Jensen

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed878757666
Joined·+1+2+0+0+3+0+0+0
No longer listed·21121100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $502k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 EAST LINN 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

EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 83% · 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

100% of EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

ID
OR

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

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’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $191k on record.

State$191k
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Top programs
  • DISTRIBUTION TO CONTRACT SVC PROVIDER$190k
  • DISTRIBUTION TO LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTS$1k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like EAST LINN 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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
117%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,688,930 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($1,673,264). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,688,930 in grants to EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,673,264 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EAST LINN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 6 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