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HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,025 to it, the largest being TROY BREWER CHARITABLE NETWORK ($39,688). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
$7.1M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Holy Cross Christian Academy does

Mission

Holy Cross Christian Academy is committed to providing quality, innovative, christ-centered education. Our dedicated, professional christian educators strive to engage our students in a comprehensive educational environment that is characterized by academic excellence, cultural relevance and practical experience. Holy cross graduates will be prepared to become christian leaders and thinkers in contemporary society.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Holy Cross Christian Academy ("hcca"), accredited through the association of christian schools international ("acsi"), continues to maintain steady enrollment,breadth of curriculum and student activities offered to students. The majority of students continued to excel academically by attaining above-grade level rankings on the majority of iowa assessments.

    $2,235,679 spentof which $27,365 as grants$1,747,792 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,235,679.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($560k)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.9M) Expenses 107 ($1.7M) Net assets 145 ($809k)2020 Revenue 171 ($2.7M) Expenses 111 ($1.7M) Net assets 324 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 102 ($1.6M) Expenses 114 ($1.8M) Net assets 290 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 130 ($2.1M) Expenses 118 ($1.9M) Net assets 333 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 128 ($2.1M) Expenses 122 ($1.9M) Net assets 357 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 442 ($7.1M) Expenses 143 ($2.2M) Net assets 1223 ($6.8M)2025 Revenue 169 ($2.7M) Expenses 153 ($2.4M) Net assets 1277 ($7.1M)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (153)Net assets (1277)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 $5.1M to $8.8M (+71%).

$2.5M
$4.1M
$5.9M
$5.0M
$5.1M
$5.1M
$8.8M
$9.1M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
’18
$250k
’19
$1.0M
’20
−$168k
’21
$239k
’22
$133k
’23
$4.8M
’24
$303k
’25
16
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.

Board chair

Jeff Sells

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed9912109879
Joined·+0+5+2+2+0+1+4
No longer listed·0243122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $15k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’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

HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.

65%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 95% — 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.

Where its funders are

83% of HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
WI
TX

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

’18
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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

HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve16.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

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

Organizations like HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,025 to it, the largest being TROY BREWER CHARITABLE NETWORK ($39,688). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $61,025 in grants to HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
TROY BREWER CHARITABLE NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $39,688 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HOLY CROSS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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