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Monte Vista Christian School

Monte Vista Christian School (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,028 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($370,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$18M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$478k
Net assets
$23M
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Monte Vista Christian School does

Mission

Monte Vista Christian School empowers learners to achieve their highest potential through Christ-centered educational excellence by courageously engaging in God's redemption work throughout our world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Christian private school with lower grade, middle and high school curriculum. Student body of approximately 825 students, including day and boarding students, are offered a full academic schedule with a variety of auxiliary programs in athletics, horsemanship, video communications, fine arts, transitional English as a second language, and Christian discipleship.

    $15,059,596 spent$16,440,620 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,059,596.

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 ($20M) Expenses 100 ($18M) Net assets 100 ($21M)2018 Revenue 100 ($20M) Expenses 91 ($17M) Net assets 115 ($24M)2019 Revenue 97 ($19M) Expenses 96 ($17M) Net assets 124 ($26M)2020 Revenue 84 ($16M) Expenses 90 ($16M) Net assets 125 ($26M)2021 Revenue 74 ($14M) Expenses 75 ($14M) Net assets 133 ($28M)2022 Revenue 87 ($17M) Expenses 90 ($16M) Net assets 134 ($28M)2023 Revenue 72 ($14M) Expenses 98 ($18M) Net assets 118 ($25M)2024 Revenue 85 ($17M) Expenses 103 ($19M) Net assets 112 ($24M)2025 Revenue 91 ($18M) Expenses 106 ($19M) Net assets 108 ($23M)
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Revenue (91)Expenses (106)Net assets (108)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 2019 to 2020, from $33M to $37M (+14%).

$30M
$32M
$33M
$37M
$37M
$35M
$33M
$31M
$30M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of Monte Vista Christian School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’17
$3.2M
’18
$1.6M
’19
$266k
’20
$896k
’21
$634k
’22
−$3.7M
’23
−$1.9M
’24
−$1.4M
’25
2.4
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.

Board chair

Michael Tunink

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1399991110913
Joined·+2+1+1+0+2+0+1+4
No longer listed·61100120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $6k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 Monte Vista Christian 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

Monte Vista Christian School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

81% 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 Monte Vista Christian School.

77%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 90% · 2023 93% — 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.

Where its funders are

81% of Monte Vista 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. Of the $91k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

OH
TN

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Monte Vista Christian School receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $478k to it.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Monte Vista 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 19%Fundraising 3%

Governance

6
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

  • Monte Vista Memorial Scholarship Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Monte Vista Christian School?
Monte Vista Christian School (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $478,028 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($370,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Monte Vista Christian School have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $478,028 in grants to Monte Vista Christian School, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Monte Vista Christian School?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Monte Vista Christian School find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 6 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