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Gilbert Christian Schools Inc

Gilbert Christian Schools Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,079,284 to it, the largest being THE KYRO FOUNDATION ($6,074,208). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$33M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$9.1M
Net assets
$22M
15/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 41%
01What it does

What Gilbert Christian Schools Inc does

Mission

To operate a non-profit Christian School, preschool through high school for a quality well-rounded education along with a sports and music program.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. To operate a non-profit Christian School, preschool through high school for a quality well-rounded education along with a sports and music program.

    $17,592,931 spent$32,771,218 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,592,931.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 104 ($16M) Expenses 111 ($15M) Net assets 130 ($5.1M)2023 Revenue 138 ($21M) Expenses 129 ($17M) Net assets 224 ($8.8M)2024 Revenue 181 ($28M) Expenses 173 ($23M) Net assets 330 ($13M)2025 Revenue 200 ($30M) Expenses 191 ($26M) Net assets 455 ($18M)2026 Revenue 215 ($33M) Expenses 213 ($29M) Net assets 560 ($22M)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (215)Expenses (213)Net assets (560)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 2024 to 2025, from $17M to $24M (+39%).

$7.8M
$9.5M
$14M
$17M
$24M
$28M
202120222023202420252026
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of Gilbert Christian Schools Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.8M
’21
$931k
’22
$3.6M
’23
$4.2M
’24
$4.7M
’25
$4.1M
’26
4.1
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.

202120222023202420252026
Listed101010141615
Joined·+0+0+7+3+3
No longer listed·00314
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $239k → $1.3M.

12 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Gilbert Christian Schools Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

Gilbert Christian Schools Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

30% 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 Gilbert Christian Schools Inc.

67%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 84% · 2019 65% · 2020 56% · 2021 32% · 2022 94% · 2023 68% — broadly stable.

“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

43% of Gilbert Christian Schools Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of Gilbert Christian Schools Inc's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

WA
MT
MN
NY
IA
IN
CT
CA
AZ
TN
OK

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Gilbert Christian Schools Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 20 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · below the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 20 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026

Organizations like Gilbert Christian Schools Inc

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 38%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AZ

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • East Valley Christian Legacy Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Gilbert Christian Schools Inc?
Gilbert Christian Schools Inc (Arizona) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,079,284 to it, the largest being THE KYRO FOUNDATION ($6,074,208). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Gilbert Christian Schools Inc have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $9,079,284 in grants to Gilbert Christian Schools Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Gilbert Christian Schools Inc?
THE KYRO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,074,208 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Gilbert Christian Schools Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing