Kentucky · Nonprofit
PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC
PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,634,519 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,866,275). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Portland Christian School System Inc does
Mission
Portland christian school is committed to honoring our lord and savior jesus christ, the creator of all things, with a learning environment that is based on biblical principles and is intellectually stimulating.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Portland christian school ("pcs") provides pre-k through grade 12 education at our two campuses in louisville, ky. The school was founded in 1924 upon the fact that "the fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge." our faculty and staff are comprised of christians who are dedicated to serving god and youth. Our current enrollment consists of approximately 470 students on our k-12 campus, and approximately 100 students at our "little school" (pre-k) campus. The school is accredited by the association of christian schools international (acsi). Pcs provides a wide range of programs and experiences for its student body, including ap courses, performing arts, athletics, clubs, mission trips, and more, and employs approximately 100 full time and part time faculty and staff.
$6,896,233 spentof which $1,599,207 as grants$6,650,294 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,896,233.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $11M to $15M (+38%).
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 16% · 2022 11% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Ray Mitchell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $1.7M.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC’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
PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
55% 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 PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 49% · 2019 56% · 2020 47% · 2021 71% · 2022 51% · 2023 92% — 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
67% of PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
54% of PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC'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 $3.5M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M 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
PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC: 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 PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC?
- PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,634,519 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,866,275). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $7,634,519 in grants to PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,866,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PORTLAND CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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