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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.

$7.7M
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$315k
Grants received
$4.9M
Net assets
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $315k to it.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($7.2M) Expenses 100 ($7.1M) Net assets 100 ($6.1M)2018 Revenue 97 ($7.0M) Expenses 101 ($7.1M) Net assets 99 ($6.0M)2019 Revenue 90 ($6.5M) Expenses 97 ($6.9M) Net assets 93 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 82 ($6.0M) Expenses 99 ($7.0M) Net assets 76 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 89 ($6.4M) Expenses 86 ($6.1M) Net assets 82 ($5.0M)2022 Revenue 92 ($6.6M) Expenses 88 ($6.2M) Net assets 90 ($5.5M)2023 Revenue 87 ($6.3M) Expenses 90 ($6.4M) Net assets 89 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 101 ($7.3M) Expenses 105 ($7.4M) Net assets 88 ($5.4M)2025 Revenue 107 ($7.7M) Expenses 116 ($8.2M) Net assets 80 ($4.9M)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (116)Net assets (80)Peer revenue range

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: 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).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$181k
17
$83k
18
$337k
19
$1.0M
20
$364k
21
$451k
22
$67k
23
$65k
24
$481k
25
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

52%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Missouri

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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.

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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing