California · Nonprofit
OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,566,794 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,439,200). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $87M
What Oaks Christian School does
Mission
The school's mission is: to dedicate ourselves to christ in the pursuit of academic excellence, artistic expression, and athletic distinction while growing in knowledge and wisdom through god's abundant grace.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Primary education program Oaks Christian School (ocs) is an independent, non-denominational, christian college-preparatory school serving students in 4th through 12th grade. The school was founded in 1997 and opened in 2000 with 196 students sharing one campus. Currently, ocs enrolls over 1,600 students annually. A middle school campus adjacent to the original campus was added in 2009. Academy v or fifth grade was added in the fall of 2014 and the fall of 2023 marked the launch of the inaugural fourth grade class to kickstart the school's elementary school expansion. For the fiscal year that ended on june 30, 2025 the school enrollment was 1,690. (continued on schedule o)the school's three pillars are academic excellence, artistic expression and athletic distinction. These distinctives are evidenced through strong academics, performing and visual arts (theatre, choir, band, orchestra, dance, 2d and 3d art, photography, graphic design and yearbook) as well as competitive athletic team participation. The 24-25 school year marked the school's 25th year anniversary and a special founders' day chapel celebration was held that welcomed back many of its original administrators and…
$68,148,181 spentof which $16,816,316 as grants$74,564,100 earned by the program92% of program spendingAuxiliary programsauxiliary programs include summer sport camps (with an enrollment of over 1,000 campers), busing transportation, a middle school cafeteria, a high school cafeteria, and campus store services.
$3,278,639 spent$3,503,435 earned by the program4% of program spendingStudent programs and activities the school's added student programs and activities include performing arts events as well as visual arts displays, athletic competitions, spiritual life/mission trip opportunities, college counseling trips, test preparation, photography class location trips and numerous club, social and extra-curricular activities. Ocs students have amazing opportunities to participate in school service and academic trips both domestic and internationally. Each year approximately 200 students join these trips to help teach english, build houses or other structures, visit orphanages and share the gospel. (continued on schedule. O)in the past, middle school students have traveled to costa rica, china and mexico while high school students have traveled to china, guatemala, africa, haiti, mexico, romania and elsewhere. The residential life program has significantly grown in past few years and has hosted over 100 students from korea, china, macau, taiwan, uganda, norway, and colombia. The ocs residential boarding facility opened on august 2020 with 40 students making history as the very first residents of the state-of-the-art dorm. The program hosts students from 17…
$2,862,962 spent$6,652,606 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,289,782.
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 2022 to 2023, from $149M to $184M (+23%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of OAKS 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
Terry Roberts
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $219k → $668k.
19 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 57% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 2023 46% — 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
27% of OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
83% of OAKS 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 $928k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like OAKS 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Online Christian Consortium LLC · disregarded
- Treebeard Investments LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,566,794 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,439,200). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $5,566,794 in grants to OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,439,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAKS 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 48 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