California · Nonprofit
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,529,802 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,698,911). 26 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $47M
What Santa Fe Christian Schools does
Mission
A coeducational independent college preparatory school within a bible based community to disciple students to embrace biblical truth, strive for academic excellence, and model christ-like leadership to influence their homes, churches, and communities for christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Santa Fe Christian Schools provides elementary, middle, and high school education for 1,091 students. 423 students were enrolled in the 2024/25 school year in santa fe christian high school. The high school seeks, through the core curriculum, electives, and extracurricular activities, to put students in a position of having the broadest possible range of choices when it comes time to apply to colleges. Bible classes are an essential part of the curriculum at Santa Fe Christian Schools, and they are taught from an orthodox, distinctively christian viewpoint.(continued on schedule o)it is our objective to encourage students to look at life with an "eternal perspective." high school students participate in global ministries trips where they are involved in volunteer teaching, minor medical treatment, english practice, and building relationships with communities. The santa fe christian high school was recognized by the us department of education as a national blue ribbon school in 2017. There were 320 middle school students enrolled in Santa Fe Christian Schools. The middle school exists to facilitate a smooth transition between the dependence of the elementary school years and the…
$27,577,466 spentof which $3,882,819 as grants$28,775,004 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $27,577,466.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $52M to $65M (+25%).
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.
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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Blake Bolton
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
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.
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; 74% give in more than one year at all.
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, 94% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,529,802 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,698,911). 26 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 $5,529,802 in grants to SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, 26 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.
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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 35 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