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HARBOR DAY SCHOOL

HARBOR DAY SCHOOL (Mississippi) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,337,345 to it, the largest being ERGON FOUNDATION INC ($1,545,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$4.3M
18/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Harbor Day School does

Mission

To glorify god by improving the quality of life for children with special needs, their families, and their communities. The organization is an early intervention christian development center serving children with special needs from birth to age 6. Eligible students have been diagnosed with development delays resulting from physical and mentally challenging conditions. Licensed pediatric therapists provide on site speech, occupational and physical therapy programs. Students come from a variety of religious and ethnic backgrounds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The little light house served 40 students, with eight students in each of the five classrooms. Each class was staffed with a certified teacher, a full time associate teacher and numerous volunteers. The staff also included 6 part-time therapists in the disciplines of speech, occupational and physical therapies 3 part time floating associate teachers and 8 making up the administrative team with total staff being 27. We were able to grow our staff in the areas of children's services and administration due to the successful fundraising and donations through children's promise act. We also purchased property in madison county that will the site of our new school in the near future.

    $896,038 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $896,038.

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 ($440k) Expenses 100 ($477k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2018 Revenue 161 ($710k) Expenses 100 ($475k) Net assets 500 ($293k)2019 Revenue 117 ($514k) Expenses 109 ($521k) Net assets 491 ($288k)2020 Revenue 117 ($513k) Expenses 114 ($545k) Net assets 421 ($247k)2021 Revenue 193 ($849k) Expenses 135 ($642k) Net assets 781 ($459k)2022 Revenue 175 ($770k) Expenses 140 ($667k) Net assets 963 ($566k)2023 Revenue 274 ($1.2M) Expenses 168 ($803k) Net assets 1652 ($970k)2024 Revenue 605 ($2.7M) Expenses 207 ($988k) Net assets 4523 ($2.7M)2025 Revenue 613 ($2.7M) Expenses 216 ($1.0M) Net assets 7370 ($4.3M)
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Revenue (613)Expenses (216)Net assets (7370)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 2023 to 2024, from $980k to $2.7M (+174%).

$60k
$301k
$302k
$349k
$477k
$577k
$980k
$2.7M
$4.3M
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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

96% of HARBOR DAY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$37k
’17
$235k
’18
−$8k
’19
−$32k
’20
$206k
’21
$103k
’22
$405k
’23
$1.7M
’24
$1.7M
’25
36
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.

Chief executive

Fran Patterson

Executive director

Board chair

David Howie

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed678877779
Joined·+1+1+0+0+0+2+0+2
No longer listed·00010200
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $141k → $270k.

9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 HARBOR DAY SCHOOL’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

HARBOR DAY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

27% 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 HARBOR DAY SCHOOL.

66%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 77% · 2019 73% · 2020 44% · 2021 67% · 2022 65% · 2023 56% — 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

47% of HARBOR DAY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

95% of HARBOR DAY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.

IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
TN
NC
MS
AL
TX

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

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Mississippi out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

HARBOR DAY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Months of reserve35.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

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

Organizations like HARBOR DAY 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 Mississippi

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 10%Fundraising 3%

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

MS

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HARBOR DAY 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 HARBOR DAY SCHOOL?
HARBOR DAY SCHOOL (Mississippi) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,337,345 to it, the largest being ERGON FOUNDATION INC ($1,545,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARBOR DAY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,337,345 in grants to HARBOR DAY SCHOOL, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HARBOR DAY SCHOOL?
ERGON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,545,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARBOR DAY SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing