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PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION

PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,300 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$500k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$570k
Net assets
$20k
0/4 repeat funders
01What it does

What Penn Woods Classical Academy the Combs Foundation does

Mission

Penn woods classical academy aims to train the mind, improve the heart, and nuture the spirit of our students so they may acquire wisdom, cultivate moral and civic virtue, and become lifelong disciples of christ who seek to know the truth, do the good, and love the beautiful for the glory of god and the flourishing of human beings and human community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To train the mind, improve the heart, and nuture the spirit of students.

    $375,075 spent$820 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $375,075.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($165k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2024 Revenue 281 ($500k) Expenses 303 ($499k) Net assets 108 ($20k)
20232024
Revenue (281)Expenses (303)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 2023 to 2024, from $22k to $29k (+32%).

$22k
$29k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’23
$2k
’24
0.7
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.

20232024
Listed86
Joined·+3
No longer listed·5
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION’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

PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

95% 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 PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION.

53%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

90% of PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION'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 $55k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $515k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)181% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 23%Fundraising 2%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION?
PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $570,300 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($300,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $570,300 in grants to PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENN WOODS CLASSICAL ACADEMY THE COMBS FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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