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PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,197,786 to it, the largest being DITTO FAMILY RESALE ($275,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$5.8M
12/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Promise Christian Academy does

Mission

Promise Christian Academy offers a specialized education that considers the whole child. At promise we meet each child's learning challenges with alternative instructional approaches designed for their unique success. This education is rooted in biblical truth as interpreted by the westminster confession of faith and seeks to reveal and develop the god-given characteristics of the student to help them achieve their purpose in life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. We provided education for forty two children who required alternative instructional approaches. Their education is rooted in biblical truth through our therapeutic approach to academic excellence. We foster in each student a higher degree of self-worth, a desire to grow toward higher independence and a recognition of a devine purpose in all life. Our curriculum includes classes in reading, math, writing, physical therapy, art, music, bible lessons and social skills.

    $1,507,254 spentof which $106,041 as grants$1,015,506 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,507,254.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 101 ($1.6M) Expenses 97 ($1.0M) Net assets 112 ($5.5M)2022 Revenue 79 ($1.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 116 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 81 ($1.3M) Expenses 109 ($1.1M) Net assets 119 ($5.8M)2024 Revenue 80 ($1.3M) Expenses 122 ($1.3M) Net assets 120 ($5.8M)2025 Revenue 99 ($1.6M) Expenses 150 ($1.6M) Net assets 120 ($5.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (99)Expenses (150)Net assets (120)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 2022 to 2023, from $6.6M to $6.2M (−6%).

$6.8M
$6.7M
$6.6M
$6.2M
$6.2M
$6.2M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

35% of PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,360 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$561k
’20
$602k
’21
$167k
’22
$171k
’23
$8k
’24
$20k
’25
8.5
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed1099899
Joined·+0+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·10110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $200k → $105k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’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

PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

67% 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 PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY.

23%
largest funder
49%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 26% · 2019 39% · 2020 50% · 2021 30% · 2022 40% · 2023 24% — 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

43% of PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

97% of PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

WY
MO
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k 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

PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve8.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian Church · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,197,786 to it, the largest being DITTO FAMILY RESALE ($275,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,197,786 in grants to PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
DITTO FAMILY RESALE is the largest funder on record, with $275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing