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LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC

LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,990,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($1,940,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.1M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$1.5M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Liberty Classical Schools Educational Services Inc does

Mission

To form, organize, operate, and support k through 12 charter schools that develop students in mind and character through a classical, content-rich cirriculum that emphasizes the principles of virtuous living, traditional learning, and civic responsibility grounded upon principles of objective truth, virtue, courage, courtesy, honesty, perserverance, self-government, and service; and, to provide such other programs and resources in furtherance of this purpose.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Liberty classical schools is a charter management organization and its leadership team includes experienced operators of american classical education charter schools. It aligns its services exclusively to launch and support that school model in public charter school or private school environments. Liberty supports the establishment, management, data tracking and reporting, and administrative operations of a network of autonomous nonprofit charter schools that implement the american classical education model in the southeastern united states.in fy25, two new charter schools were launched, cherokee classical academy and fayette classical academy.

    $2,959,544 spentof which $1,450,000 as grants$2,698,451 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,959,544.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($429k)2024 Revenue 148 ($2.5M) Expenses 168 ($2.1M) Net assets 181 ($777k)2025 Revenue 306 ($5.1M) Expenses 348 ($4.4M) Net assets 352 ($1.5M)
202320242025
Revenue (306)Expenses (348)Net assets (352)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 $1.2M to $2.0M (+69%).

$444k
$1.2M
$2.0M
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$409k
’23
$348k
’24
$733k
’25
4.2
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.

Chief executive

Matthew Kirby

CEO / executive director

Board chair

Harrison Coleman

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed469
Joined·+2+3
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.4M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Liberty Classical Schools Educational Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC raised.

From the IRS filings of LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 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

LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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 LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.

CO
GA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)75% · top quartile

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

Organizations like LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES 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 Georgia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 29%Fundraising 4%

Governance

3
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

GA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Liberty Classical Schools Foundation Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC?
LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,990,000 to it, the largest being CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND ($1,940,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,990,000 in grants to LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC?
CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,940,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIBERTY CLASSICAL SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 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