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LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025

LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,219,256 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,537,777). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$284k
6/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Lincoln Christian School Foundation Short Tax Year Ended 5/31/2025 does

Mission

To provide supplementary support of lincoln christian school's programs and facilites.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. General support of lincoln christian school and its programs.

    $1,717,973 spentof which $1,717,973 as grants
    99% of program spending
  2. Scholarships for students of lincoln christian school

    $25,770 spentof which $25,770 as grants
    1% of program spending
  3. N/a

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,743,743.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($780k) Net assets 100 ($112k)2018 Revenue 111 ($1.2M) Expenses 111 ($867k) Net assets 339 ($381k)2019 Revenue 128 ($1.4M) Expenses 302 ($2.4M) Net assets -438 ($-491631)2020 Revenue 181 ($1.9M) Expenses 119 ($931k) Net assets 522 ($586k)2021 Revenue 254 ($2.7M) Expenses 301 ($2.3M) Net assets 860 ($966k)2022 Revenue 245 ($2.6M) Expenses 806 ($6.3M) Net assets -2481 ($-2786512)2023 Revenue 321 ($3.5M) Expenses 369 ($2.9M) Net assets -1945 ($-2183544)2024 Revenue 318 ($3.4M) Expenses 235 ($1.8M) Net assets -553 ($-620697)2025 Revenue 142 ($1.5M) Expenses 77 ($597k) Net assets 253 ($284k)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (77)Net assets (253)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 2022 to 2023, from $903k to $1.6M (+79%).

$767k
$681k
$808k
$1.3M
$1.3M
$903k
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.9M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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

98% of LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$296k
’17
$325k
’18
−$976k
’19
$1.0M
’20
$385k
’21
−$3.7M
’22
$572k
’23
$1.6M
’24
$927k
’25
22
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed151417171516181818
Joined·+2+4+2+1+3+3+0+0
No longer listed·31232100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $327k → $638k.

8 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025’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

LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025.

36%
largest funder
81%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 41% · 2019 55% · 2020 46% · 2021 48% · 2022 48% · 2023 66% — 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

75% of LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025'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 $343k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 2 states.

CO
NE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin61% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Lincoln Christian School · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025?
LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 (Nebraska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,219,256 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,537,777). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,219,256 in grants to LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,537,777 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION SHORT TAX YEAR ENDED 5/31/2025 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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