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PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL

PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (Arizona) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,832,138 to it, the largest being PETER & NANCY SALTER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$36M
Funders on record
54
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$96M
34/54 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Phoenix Country Day School does

Mission

Phoenix Country Day School prepares promising students to become responsible leaders and lifelong learners through an education that emphasizes intellectual engagement, independence, collaboration, creativity, and integrity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Phoenix Country Day School has always exhibited the best in independent school education: simultaneously staying true to our roots and traditions, while being nimble and forward thinking to prepare the world's leaders of tomorrow. Pcds provides education to 765 students in pre-k through 12th grade: number of students. There were 158 individual students who received grants.

    $23,458,675 spentof which $2,093,855 as grants$26,793,783 earned by the program
    98% of program spending
  2. Ancillary services provided to students. These services include after school programs, summer programs, and transportation services.

    $584,463 spent$1,111,640 earned by the program
    2% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,043,138.

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 ($28M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($54M)2018 Revenue 85 ($24M) Expenses 102 ($23M) Net assets 104 ($56M)2019 Revenue 86 ($24M) Expenses 105 ($23M) Net assets 105 ($57M)2020 Revenue 88 ($24M) Expenses 105 ($23M) Net assets 108 ($58M)2021 Revenue 103 ($29M) Expenses 107 ($24M) Net assets 126 ($68M)2022 Revenue 149 ($41M) Expenses 119 ($26M) Net assets 142 ($76M)2023 Revenue 107 ($30M) Expenses 123 ($27M) Net assets 151 ($82M)2024 Revenue 112 ($31M) Expenses 125 ($28M) Net assets 164 ($89M)2025 Revenue 131 ($36M) Expenses 136 ($30M) Net assets 178 ($96M)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (136)Net assets (178)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 2020 to 2021, from $66M to $78M (+18%).

$64M
$65M
$65M
$66M
$78M
$85M
$91M
$98M
$107M
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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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

18% of PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.7M
’17
$1.1M
’18
$688k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$4.9M
’21
$15M
’22
$2.5M
’23
$3.4M
’24
$6.1M
’25
8.3
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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Listed262825272435362727
Joined·+4+3+6+4+14+3+3+2
No longer listed·264732122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $453k → $1.8M.

15 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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

PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

40% 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 PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL.

28%
largest funder
64%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 53% · 2019 17% · 2020 16% · 2021 30% · 2022 81% · 2023 34% — 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

54% of PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

69% of PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

WI
NV
PA
NJ
CA
AZ
KS
TX

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

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY 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 Arizona

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Corporate Tax Foundation · exempt
  • Independent Schools Corporate Tax Fund · exempt
  • Arizona Independent Schools Scholarship Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (Arizona) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,832,138 to it, the largest being PETER & NANCY SALTER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($5,000,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $17,832,138 in grants to PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
PETER & NANCY SALTER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 54 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