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GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION

GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,592 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($269,392). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$276k
Net assets
$6.5M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Grandville Calvin Christian Schools Foundation does

Mission

To provide long-term financial support to the grandville calvin christian schools (fe 38-1968313) by raising funds and manage the investments. The foundation is committed to being faithful stewards of the funds entrusted to us and are working to grow the assets to annually provide increasing distributions to the school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 5% of the assets are distributed annually to the grandville calvin christian schools (id 38-1968313) to help offset the cost of education. These annual grants help keep the cost of tuition as low as possible and attempts to make christian education affordable for all children who attend the school.

    $277,155 spentof which $277,155 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $277,155.

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 ($815k) Expenses 100 ($287k) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 27 ($224k) Expenses 123 ($352k) Net assets 87 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 120 ($981k) Expenses 122 ($351k) Net assets 98 ($5.3M)2020 Revenue 110 ($899k) Expenses 126 ($363k) Net assets 91 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 114 ($931k) Expenses 91 ($260k) Net assets 103 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 69 ($562k) Expenses 511 ($1.5M) Net assets 86 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 83 ($676k) Expenses 104 ($299k) Net assets 93 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 117 ($953k) Expenses 110 ($317k) Net assets 105 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 149 ($1.2M) Expenses 128 ($368k) Net assets 121 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (149)Expenses (128)Net assets (121)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 $5.8M to $4.9M (−15%).

$5.6M
$4.9M
$5.5M
$5.1M
$5.8M
$4.9M
$5.3M
$5.9M
$6.8M
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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

34% of GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$528k
’17
−$128k
’18
$631k
’19
$536k
’20
$671k
’21
−$903k
’22
$377k
’23
$637k
’24
$848k
’25
10
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.

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Listed999988799
Joined·+1+0+1+1+0+0+5+0
No longer listed·10120130
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $39k → $29k.

Funder
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total
funders
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1
1
1
1
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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

GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

100% 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 GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k 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

GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin70% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 23%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
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

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,592 to it, the largest being GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($269,392). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $275,592 in grants to GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $269,392 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRANDVILLE CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 2 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