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PROVIDENCE SCHOOL

PROVIDENCE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,587,337 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,333,915). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
$6.5M
17/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Providence School does

Mission

This corporation is organized to operate a preschool-12 private school of high academic quality grounded in the teachings of jesus christ and the bible and to encourage such other educational, charitable and religious activities as the board of directors may define.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providence School, a preschool-12 private school in the christian tradition, is dedicated to the education of the whole - person - mind, body, and spirit - and to the pursuit of truth, beauty, and excellence in all of schooling and life. Providence School has a full curriculum based on a core humanities program, mathematics, natural sciences, foreign languages, theatre, visual art, music, physical education, foundations of the christian faith, and numerous co-curricular activities such as athletics, theatre performances, retreats, and service opportunities.

    $7,266,158 spentof which $1,522,997 as grants$7,611,776 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,266,158.

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 ($6.9M) Expenses 100 ($6.0M) Net assets -1 ($-34850)2018 Revenue 88 ($6.1M) Expenses 114 ($6.9M) Net assets -12 ($-323558)2020 Revenue 104 ($7.2M) Expenses 113 ($6.8M) Net assets -34 ($-903144)2021 Revenue 97 ($6.7M) Expenses 101 ($6.1M) Net assets -11 ($-299845)2022 Revenue 149 ($10M) Expenses 120 ($7.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 134 ($9.2M) Expenses 131 ($7.9M) Net assets 148 ($4.0M)2024 Revenue 141 ($9.7M) Expenses 151 ($9.2M) Net assets 168 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 166 ($11M) Expenses 157 ($9.5M) Net assets 241 ($6.5M)
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Revenue (166)Expenses (157)Net assets (241)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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $11M (+320%).

$1.0M
$930k
$2.0M
$2.7M
$11M
$12M
$12M
$13M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2021 11% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

33% of PROVIDENCE SCHOOL’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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$842k
’17
−$786k
’18
$345k
’20
$603k
’21
$3.0M
’22
$1.3M
’23
$552k
’24
$2.0M
’25
3.4
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

Joshua Keith

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1921151314141515
Joined·+3·+3+3+3+3+1
No longer listed·1·52321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $352k → $1.1M.

9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SCHOOL’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 SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 PROVIDENCE SCHOOL.

44%
largest funder
68%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 39% · 2019 54% · 2020 48% · 2021 60% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% — 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

23% of PROVIDENCE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

64% of PROVIDENCE SCHOOL'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from California funders.

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MA
NV
CA
VA
TX

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. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

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

Organizations like PROVIDENCE 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 California

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 15%Fundraising 8%

Governance

10
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 SCHOOL: 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 SCHOOL?
PROVIDENCE SCHOOL (California) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,587,337 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,333,915). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PROVIDENCE SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $7,587,337 in grants to PROVIDENCE SCHOOL, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PROVIDENCE SCHOOL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,333,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PROVIDENCE SCHOOL 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 25 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