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SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,469,158 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,698,911). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$32M
Revenue FY2025
35
Funders on record
$5.5M
Grants received
$47M
Net assets
25/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($26M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($25M)2018 Revenue 96 ($25M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 113 ($28M)2019 Revenue 91 ($24M) Expenses 106 ($23M) Net assets 115 ($29M)2020 Revenue 135 ($35M) Expenses 110 ($24M) Net assets 158 ($40M)2021 Revenue 107 ($28M) Expenses 114 ($25M) Net assets 175 ($44M)2022 Revenue 122 ($32M) Expenses 123 ($27M) Net assets 190 ($48M)2023 Revenue 106 ($28M) Expenses 130 ($28M) Net assets 187 ($47M)2024 Revenue 112 ($29M) Expenses 138 ($30M) Net assets 187 ($47M)2025 Revenue 122 ($32M) Expenses 149 ($33M) Net assets 186 ($47M)
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Revenue (122)Expenses (149)Net assets (186)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 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.

$4.3M
17
$3.1M
18
$571k
19
$11M
20
$3.1M
21
$5.0M
22
$526k
23
$849k
24
$805k
25
5.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $136k → $620k.

15 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)74% 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 SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

74% 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 SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 46% · 2019 46% · 2020 59% · 2021 41% · 2022 62% · 2023 62%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

44% of SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS'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

74% of SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
AZ
NC
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. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 35 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,469,158 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,698,911). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $5,469,158 in grants to SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,698,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 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.

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 35funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing