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HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC

HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,917 to it, the largest being WADE AND HELEN SUE WARD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ($54,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.8M
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$139k
Grants received
$3.4M
Net assets
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 102 ($3.4M) Expenses 106 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2019 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 105 ($3.4M) Net assets 99 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 95 ($3.2M) Expenses 98 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 107 ($3.6M) Expenses 103 ($3.3M) Net assets 114 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 121 ($4.0M) Expenses 112 ($3.6M) Net assets 144 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 118 ($4.0M) Expenses 125 ($4.0M) Net assets 144 ($3.0M)2024 Revenue 131 ($4.4M) Expenses 136 ($4.4M) Net assets 147 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 145 ($4.8M) Expenses 141 ($4.5M) Net assets 162 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (145)Expenses (141)Net assets (162)

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$130k
17
$7k
18
$26k
19
$19k
20
$283k
21
$444k
22
$49k
23
$11k
24
$308k
25
4.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $6k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)54% 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 HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC’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

HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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

54% 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 HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC.

39%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 53% · 2019 72% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 92% · 2023 95%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

54% of HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC'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 $64k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Maryland funders.

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Maryland

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Holly Grove Mennonite Church · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: 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 HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC?
HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,917 to it, the largest being WADE AND HELEN SUE WARD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ($54,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $138,917 in grants to HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC?
WADE AND HELEN SUE WARD SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $54,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOLLY GROVE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing