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PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,576,116 to it, the largest being STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION ($4,770,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
$987k
8/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Providence Christian College does

Mission

The mission of Providence Christian College is to equip students to be firmly grounded in biblical truth, thoroughly educated in the liberal arts, and fully engaged in their church, community, and the world, for the glory of god and for service to humanity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Post-secondary education: engage in educational services resulting in undergraduate degree. The educational program is taught from a reformed christian perspectives as summarized in the doctrines of the holy scriptures. College is accredited by wscuc. Enrollment continues to increase after decreases related to the pandemic. The college continues to exceed annual fundraising goals to support funding student scholarships, create new programs to benefit students and meet operating needs.

    $9,716,053 spentof which $3,891,912 as grants$7,910,080 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,716,053.

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 ($8.9M) Expenses 100 ($8.4M) Net assets 100 ($746k)2018 Revenue 93 ($8.3M) Expenses 100 ($8.4M) Net assets 85 ($630k)2019 Revenue 120 ($11M) Expenses 116 ($9.8M) Net assets 197 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 91 ($8.0M) Expenses 116 ($9.8M) Net assets -36 ($-270481)2021 Revenue 109 ($9.6M) Expenses 108 ($9.1M) Net assets 38 ($280k)2022 Revenue 111 ($9.8M) Expenses 115 ($9.7M) Net assets 57 ($422k)2023 Revenue 125 ($11M) Expenses 130 ($11M) Net assets 75 ($562k)2024 Revenue 133 ($12M) Expenses 151 ($13M) Net assets -51 ($-379494)2025 Revenue 142 ($13M) Expenses 132 ($11M) Net assets 132 ($987k)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (132)Net assets (132)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 $1.6M to $5.3M (+229%).

$3.2M
$3.1M
$3.5M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$5.3M
$4.2M
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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
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

37% of PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$443k
’17
−$115k
’18
$841k
’19
−$1.7M
’20
$550k
’21
$142k
’22
$140k
’23
−$942k
’24
$1.4M
’25
1.2
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.

Board chair

Brad Burke

Trustee - chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed222321202226262723
Joined·+4+0+2+6+9+3+1+1
No longer listed·32345305
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.4M.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE’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

PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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

63%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 48% · 2019 42% · 2020 70% · 2021 57% · 2022 81% · 2023 88% — 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

40% of PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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

100% of PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE's grant income comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

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

Government funding PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.

Federal$2.6M
grants $2.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$2.6M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 11%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
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 PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: 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 PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE?
PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,576,116 to it, the largest being STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION ($4,770,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $7,576,116 in grants to PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE?
STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,770,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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