Missouri · Nonprofit
LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,373 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($165,000). 4 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
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $315k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Living Word Christian School does
Mission
The mission of veritas christian academy is to assist christian families in equipping students with a christ-centered education, empowering them to impact the world for the glory of god.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: provide a cognia and acsi accredited quality christian education for over 600 students including academic, artistic, and athletic endeavors. Our average high school graduate has a 3.5 weighted gpa and 25 act score, with 1st-5th graders performing at or above grade level in all subjects as measured on standardized testing. Students' academic needs are met through remedial enrichment, life skills, dual credit college courses and advanced placement classes. Both fine arts and competitive athletics are mshsaa certified. Theatre, voice, band, orchestra, and multi-media art classes encourage artistic expression. Sports teams are offered at all grade levels through community teams and high school programs...(see schedule o)district and state recognitions also include robotics and scholar bowl.
$6,189,383 spentof which $578,233 as grants$6,560,658 earned by the program91% of program spendingStudent activities:in addition to the academic, artistic, and athletic program, all 6th-12th grade students along with families provided over 15,000 community service hours to various organizations in our local community. Students also work with international, environmental, civic, and community organizations. Activities include assisting international and special needs children, providing meals through "feed our starving children and "backpack buddies," beautifying community and nonprofit facilities, collecting shoeboxes for samaritan's purse, volunteering at the sharing shed local mission, collecting items for "adopt a soldier, and sending our musical groups to local nursing homes..(see schedule o)lastly, campus facilities are provided without cost for police training, community event parking, and sports and academic competition activities.
$358,316 spent$207,212 earned by the program5% of program spendingAuxiliary services: assist families by providing reasonably priced nutritious hot lunch meals at all grade levels. Before school and after school extended day programs provide a safe environment for students to allow families a more flexible schedule. The buildings and athletic fields are available for non-profit youth organizations to rent. Summer camps provide enrichment opportunities for all grades. For elementary age children, full-day programs with field trips are available. For all school-age children, including those in the community, artistic and sports camps are offered throughout the summer.
$228,311 spent$436,651 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,776,010.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.9M to $11M (+22%).
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: 2017 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $0 → $80k.
9 of 10 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 LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. 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
LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 59% · 2021 58% · 2022 79% · 2023 75% — 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
25% of LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
100% of LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $315k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,373 to it, the largest being Servant Foundation ($165,000). 4 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 LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $315,373 in grants to LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- Servant Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing