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SAINT JAMES SCHOOL

SAINT JAMES SCHOOL (Maryland) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,430,198 to it, the largest being E NEWBOLD & MARGARET DUPONT SMITH F FOUNDATION (DBA THORNEDGE FDN) ($1,700,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$21M
Funders on record
51
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$84M
36/51 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Saint James School does

Mission

To prepare young men and women for academic success in college, and to challenge and inspire them to be leaders for good in the world. We seek to do this within a small and familial residential community which values the moral and spiritual development of our students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instruction and student activities

    $4,951,000 spent$13,745,000 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  2. Facilities maintenance

    $3,157,000 spent$110,000 earned by the program
    24% of program spending
  3. Financial aid

    $5,041,000 spentof which $5,041,000 as grants
    38% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,149,000.

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 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($51M)2018 Revenue 106 ($18M) Expenses 103 ($13M) Net assets 110 ($56M)2019 Revenue 91 ($15M) Expenses 106 ($14M) Net assets 115 ($58M)2020 Revenue 89 ($15M) Expenses 104 ($14M) Net assets 117 ($59M)2021 Revenue 84 ($14M) Expenses 101 ($13M) Net assets 135 ($69M)2022 Revenue 124 ($21M) Expenses 116 ($15M) Net assets 136 ($69M)2023 Revenue 138 ($23M) Expenses 121 ($16M) Net assets 154 ($78M)2024 Revenue 125 ($21M) Expenses 124 ($16M) Net assets 167 ($85M)2025 Revenue 125 ($21M) Expenses 124 ($16M) Net assets 166 ($84M)
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Revenue (125)Expenses (124)Net assets (166)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 $65M to $77M (+18%).

$58M
$62M
$64M
$65M
$77M
$77M
$85M
$91M
$91M
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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

24% of SAINT JAMES SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 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.

$3.6M
’17
$4.3M
’18
$1.4M
’19
$1.2M
’20
$871k
’21
$5.5M
’22
$7.1M
’23
$4.6M
’24
$4.6M
’25
5.1
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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Listed262524222423242523
Joined·+4+2+3+4+1+2+1+1
No longer listed·53522103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $736k → $2.1M.

18 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 SAINT JAMES SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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

SAINT JAMES SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

62% 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 SAINT JAMES SCHOOL.

14%
largest funder
38%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 39% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 31% · 2022 24% · 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

53% of SAINT JAMES SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

62% of SAINT JAMES 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 $4.8M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 16 states.

NH
MN
IL
NY
NV
WY
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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

SAINT JAMES SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like SAINT JAMES 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 Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 14%Fundraising 4%

Governance

24
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL?
SAINT JAMES SCHOOL (Maryland) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,430,198 to it, the largest being E NEWBOLD & MARGARET DUPONT SMITH F FOUNDATION (DBA THORNEDGE FDN) ($1,700,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAINT JAMES SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $12,430,198 in grants to SAINT JAMES SCHOOL, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAINT JAMES SCHOOL?
E NEWBOLD & MARGARET DUPONT SMITH F FOUNDATION (DBA THORNEDGE FDN) is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAINT JAMES SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 51 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