Texas · Nonprofit
LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL
LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,333,979 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($775,255). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $-200677
What Live Oak Classical School does
Mission
Live Oak Classical School strives to equip students to love god with all their hearts, souls, and minds. We draw on the classical tools of learning to prepare students to reason clearly, communicate effectively, & act responsibly in the world, all for the glory of god.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide a christian and classical education for children in grades k through 12. During the year ended june 30, 2025, the school provided education for 491 students
$4,612,305 spentof which $588,097 as grants$6,246,210 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,612,305.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $1.3M (−46%).
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.
8% of LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $155k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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: $511k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Live Oak Classical Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of LIVE OAK CLASSICAL 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
LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 82% · 2021 59% · 2022 94% · 2023 88% — 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
40% of LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
66% of LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL'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 $457k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $877k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVE OAK CLASSICAL 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Live Oak Classical Foundation · exempt
- Live Oak Classical Properties · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL?
- LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,333,979 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($775,255). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,333,979 in grants to LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $775,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVE OAK CLASSICAL SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing