Florida · Nonprofit
LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,554,338 to it, the largest being HARRELL FAMILY CHARITIES INC ($5,120,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $9.6M
- Net assets
- $68M
What Lakeland Christian School Inc does
Mission
The mission of lakeland christian school is to educate students in the light of god's word to equip them for a lifetime of learning, leadership, service and worship.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lakeland christian school (lcs) is one of the nation's premier private christian schools. The institution was founded in 1954 and has over 1,000 students, making it one of the oldest and largest non-public k4-12th grade schools in west central florida. Hallmarks of lcs include challenging academics, championship athletics, and award-winning fine arts. The school's primary distinctive, though, is the biblical worldview that permeates every facet of school life. Lcs is non-denominational, and school families represent more than 160 local churches. Continued on schedule olcs is governed by a 11-member board of directors and is accredited by the association of christian schools international (acsi), the florida council of independent schools (fcis), and cognia.all faculty members maintain professional certification in their fields. The student-to-faculty ratio is 13.5:1. 42% of the faculty hold master's degrees and 31% have taught at lcs for 10 years or more. The test scores of lcs students consistently exceed local, state, and national averages. Lcs offers 18 advanced placement and honors courses and 15 dual enrollment classes and 96% of its graduates pursue college.the school…
$17,602,594 spentof which $2,461,597 as grants$19,721,720 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,602,594.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $49M to $61M (+24%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Kevin Knowlton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $488k → $874k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LAKELAND 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
LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 42% · 2019 64% · 2020 90% · 2021 85% · 2022 33% · 2023 50% — 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
45% of LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
92% of LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $6k
- FEES - GENERAL - COMMODITIES $16
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gilpin Park Properties · disregarded
- Ariana Ten LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC?
- LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC (Florida) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,554,338 to it, the largest being HARRELL FAMILY CHARITIES INC ($5,120,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $9,554,338 in grants to LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC?
- HARRELL FAMILY CHARITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKELAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 20 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