California · Nonprofit
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
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
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 program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,059,596.
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 2019 to 2020, from $33M to $37M (+14%).
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: 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).
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.
Board chair
Michael Tunink
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Monte Vista Christian School receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $478k to it.
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Monte Vista Memorial Scholarship Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Monte Vista 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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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