Alabama · Nonprofit
KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL
KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,658,757 to it, the largest being KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL ($984,127). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Kate Duncan Smith Dar School does
Mission
It is the mission of the Kate Duncan Smith Dar School to educate the boys and girls of gunter mountain.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Kds school provides opportunities for its students to develop a strong love of american ideals as they obtain a distinctive academic background. The curriculum emphasizes academic achievement, patriot, and moral values and service to community and country. Dar provides academic support in the form of scholarships for those students that meet certain academic standards.
$1,146,593 spentof which $140,439 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,146,593.
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.
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 $4.0M to $4.5M (+13%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $9k → $364k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $2.5M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Society Daughters of the American Revolution). These are real filings, and they are not money KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL’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
KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% 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 KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 75% · 2021 59% · 2022 65% · 2023 62% — 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
75% of KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
69% of KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR 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 KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL?
- KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL (Alabama) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,658,757 to it, the largest being KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL ($984,127). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,658,757 in grants to KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL?
- KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL is the largest funder on record, with $984,127 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KATE DUNCAN SMITH DAR SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 14 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