Florida · Nonprofit
GRACE PLACE SCHOOL
GRACE PLACE SCHOOL (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,685 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($99,514). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $443k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $227k
- Net assets
- $264k
What Grace Place School does
Mission
Grace Place School desires to see south florida's youth free from sex trafficking and other destructive lifestyles. Our mission is to creatively empower at risk youth in order for them to reach their god given potential. We specialize in job and life skills training, alternative educational instruction, and business entrepreneurship. With the expertise of trained teachers, counselors, interns and other professionals, this nontraditional education and training setting provides youth with much needed opportunities for success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grace Place School is a unique educational program meeting the therapeutic needs of vulnerable youth who are victims of sex trafficking or are considered to be at high risk of becoming a victim. We offer a year-round academic program and an intensive 6-week summer job skills training and entrepreneurship program. Grace Place School academic students demonstrate a steady increase in attendance. Students improve their reading and math skills by an average of three grade levels each year. Additionally, 98% of our students complete the academic year and advance to the next grade or graduate with their high school diploma. Seniors receive individualized guidance in planning for continuing education, including college or technical school, as well as career opportunity exploration
$305,680 spent$95,852 earned by the program100% of program spendingThis program equips vulnerable and at-risk teens with the practical skills needed to achieve economic independence and long-term success. Students receive hands-on training in job readiness, including resume writing, interviewing, workplace communication, financial literacy, and professional conduct. In addition, participants explore entrepreneurship by developing business ideas, learning marketing and budgeting principles, and gaining real-world experience through student-run enterprises. The program helps youth build confidence, discover career pathways, and develop the skills necessary to become productive, self-sufficient members of the community.
$1,281 spent$1,286 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $306,961.
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 $117k to $224k (+91%).
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: 2022 91% · 2023 75% · 2024 79% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of GRACE PLACE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Erin K Lecuyer
Chairwoman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $90k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 GRACE PLACE 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
GRACE PLACE SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 GRACE PLACE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 99% · 2023 50% — 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
40% of GRACE PLACE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
96% of GRACE PLACE SCHOOL'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GRACE PLACE SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GRACE PLACE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRACE PLACE SCHOOL: 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 GRACE PLACE SCHOOL?
- GRACE PLACE SCHOOL (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $226,685 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($99,514). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRACE PLACE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $226,685 in grants to GRACE PLACE SCHOOL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRACE PLACE SCHOOL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $99,514 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRACE PLACE SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 8 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