New Jersey · Nonprofit
Eastern Christian School Association
Eastern Christian School Association (New Jersey) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,637,812 to it, the largest being THE CHRINIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,017,670). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Eastern Christian School Association does
Mission
By providing an excellent academic curriculum, offering a variety of extra-curricular activities, and assembling a caring, culturally diverse community, we, with support of parents and local churches, empower students from christian families to develop their gifts within the context of a reformed christian worldview so that they can act as christ's transforming agents in a global society. Engaging the mind, nurturing the spirit, transforming the world!
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
As the oldest and largest christian day school in the new york metropolitan area, eastern christian's commitment to academic excellence is measured by its faculty, facilities, and rigorous curriculum. It is accredited by the middle states association of colleges and schools and is a founding member of christian schools international. The faculty is new jersey state certified with an average teaching experience of 15 years; almost half having earned advanced degrees. Its three campuses are located in wyckoff, midland park and north haledon. Spacious and well-equipped, each building is designed to meet the particular educational needs of elementary, middle and high school students. Curriculum evaluation and enhancement is a continual process energized by the professional staff in order to make learning at eastern christian exceptional. The tradition at the heart of eastern christian is a reformed perspective which places god at the center of every aspect of education while providing insight into the majesty of the creator. Founded in 1892, eastern christian is a school where this rich tradition is evident in everything from an elementary science lesson introducing the wonder of seed…
$15,235,652 spentof which $3,271,184 as grants$15,764,414 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,235,652.
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 2023 to 2024, from $19M to $24M (+25%).
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 12% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of Eastern Christian School Association’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Dr Ruth Kuder
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $434k → $157k.
8 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $14M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for Eastern Christian School Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Eastern Christian School Association raised.
From the IRS filings of Eastern Christian School Association’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
Eastern Christian School Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 Eastern Christian School Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 98% · 2019 72% · 2020 37% · 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 2023 33% — 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
31% of Eastern Christian School Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
99% of Eastern Christian School Association's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $505k 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.
Against its field
Eastern Christian School Association has grown faster than half of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Eastern Christian School Association
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Foundation for Eastern Christian School · exempt
- Eagle Solar LLC · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Eastern Christian School Association: 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 Eastern Christian School Association?
- Eastern Christian School Association (New Jersey) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,637,812 to it, the largest being THE CHRINIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,017,670). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Eastern Christian School Association have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,637,812 in grants to Eastern Christian School Association, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Eastern Christian School Association?
- THE CHRINIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,017,670 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Eastern Christian School Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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