Michigan · Nonprofit
KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,041,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($951,243). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,063 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- H P & Genevieve Connable Fundlocalportfolio match
- Miller-Davis Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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: 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $277k → $276k.
14 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.6M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Second Impressions). These are real filings, and they are not money KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION’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
KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 68%; 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 KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 41% · 2019 36% · 2020 57% · 2021 56% · 2022 67% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
69% of KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 83% 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
94% of KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION'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 $114k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
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 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- H P & Genevieve Connable Fundlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Miller-Davis Foundationlocalportfolio matchMI · funds 31 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundationshared funderslocalMI · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · funds 93 organizations near you
- Christian Education Charitable Trust Coportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Leadership Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Antonio V Glassberg Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stanley M Herzog Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry Vermeer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Tuition Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Folds of Honor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Christian Education Network Scholarship Granting Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Second Impressions · exempt
- Kalamazoo Christian School Fdn · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,041,276 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($951,243). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,041,276 in grants to KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $951,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KALAMAZOO CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders 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