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LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,642 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($442,939). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$532k
Net assets
$335k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Libertas Classical Association does

Mission

The mission of libertas christian school is to partner with parents to educate and disciple children consistent with a biblical worldview, teaching them to be lifelong learners able to discern, articulate, and defend truth in a compelling, winsome christ-like manner.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide a bible-based pre-k through grade 12 education

    $1,292,572 spent$780,255 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,292,572.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($823k) Expenses 100 ($826k) Net assets 100 ($117k)2018 Revenue 127 ($1.0M) Expenses 114 ($943k) Net assets 186 ($218k)2019 Revenue 124 ($1.0M) Expenses 136 ($1.1M) Net assets 101 ($118k)2020 Revenue 130 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($964k) Net assets 187 ($218k)2021 Revenue 150 ($1.2M) Expenses 134 ($1.1M) Net assets 296 ($346k)2022 Revenue 142 ($1.2M) Expenses 140 ($1.2M) Net assets 310 ($363k)2023 Revenue 150 ($1.2M) Expenses 172 ($1.4M) Net assets 149 ($174k)2024 Revenue 152 ($1.2M) Expenses 159 ($1.3M) Net assets 93 ($109k)2025 Revenue 193 ($1.6M) Expenses 165 ($1.4M) Net assets 286 ($335k)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (165)Net assets (286)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 2024 to 2025, from $116k to $347k (+199%).

$117k
$218k
$118k
$218k
$346k
$371k
$188k
$116k
$347k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
$101k
’18
−$100k
’19
$102k
’20
$127k
’21
$17k
’22
−$189k
’23
−$65k
’24
$226k
’25
3.0
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

Nathan Norris

Board president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed81010434466
Joined·+2+0+1+1+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·00720000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $79k → $12k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LIBERTAS CLASSICAL 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

LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 83% · 2023 49% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of LIBERTAS CLASSICAL 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 $108 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $532k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

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

Organizations like LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION

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In Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIBERTAS CLASSICAL 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION?
LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,642 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($442,939). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $531,642 in grants to LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIBERTAS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $442,939 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIBERTAS CLASSICAL 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.

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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 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