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PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL

PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $597,472 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($168,125). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.4M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$597k
Net assets
$7.5M
11/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Pasadena Christian School does

Mission

The primary mission of the school is to provide its students with the academic training and spiritual nurture needed to become men and women who are worthy representatives of our lord jesus christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Working together with the family and local church, the school seeks to provide students with the foundation necessary to become people whose lives reflect an uncompromising commitment to christ, who are people of the unquestioned integrity, and who pursue excellence in whatever they do. The school ensures that the salvation message is presented to and understood by each child. This education provides the foundation upon which future christian service and ministry is built.

    $5,095,324 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,095,324.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($7.2M) Expenses 100 ($7.1M) Net assets 100 ($4.6M)2019 Revenue 103 ($7.4M) Expenses 102 ($7.2M) Net assets 103 ($4.7M)2020 Revenue 96 ($6.9M) Expenses 101 ($7.2M) Net assets 97 ($4.4M)2021 Revenue 80 ($5.8M) Expenses 91 ($6.5M) Net assets 81 ($3.7M)2022 Revenue 114 ($8.2M) Expenses 93 ($6.6M) Net assets 116 ($5.3M)2023 Revenue 92 ($6.6M) Expenses 94 ($6.7M) Net assets 115 ($5.2M)2024 Revenue 118 ($8.4M) Expenses 93 ($6.6M) Net assets 162 ($7.4M)2025 Revenue 130 ($9.4M) Expenses 129 ($9.2M) Net assets 165 ($7.5M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (129)Net assets (165)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 2023 to 2024, from $8.5M to $10M (+21%).

$7.7M
$7.8M
$7.3M
$8.3M
$8.2M
$8.5M
$10M
$11M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 21% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$59k
’18
$152k
’19
−$289k
’20
−$728k
’21
$1.6M
’22
−$47k
’23
$1.8M
’24
$168k
’25
7.3
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.

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Listed1413131312131410
Joined·+1+2+4+3+3+1+7
No longer listed·22442011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $20k → $80k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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

PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

49% 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 PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.

28%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 58% · 2019 98% · 2020 91% · 2021 52% · 2022 60% · 2023 63% — 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.

How long its funders stay

63% of PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

98% of PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
NC

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

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’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PASADENA 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.

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05Profile & 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 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
140%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PASADENA 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 PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $597,472 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($168,125). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $597,472 in grants to PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $168,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PASADENA 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 22 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