Missouri · Nonprofit
THE BARSTOW SCHOOL
THE BARSTOW SCHOOL (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,486,432 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($8,800,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $36M
What The Barstow School does
Mission
The organization is a private co-educational college preparatory school for preschool through 12th grade. The objective of the school is to "promote sound scholarship and to give symmetrical development to mind, body and character."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A. Barstow school's mission is to promote sound scholarship and to give symmetrical development to mind, body and character. Barstow combines rigorous academics, individualized learning and an emphasis on steam to provide the best independent school education in the region. We are a preschool through 12th grade school educating approximately 775 students and we graduated 58 seniors.idea space kc , powered by barstow, is our learning center serving students throughout the community and at barstow. Over 2,000 students learned to use the technology and tools that power tomorrow's workforce through our steam learning experiences.internationally, we offered 1,100 and 145 students the opportunity to be taught at schools managed by barstow in china and ghana, respectively.
$16,931,083 spentof which $2,042,581 as grants$20,945,415 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,931,083.
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.
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 $36M to $52M (+45%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Daniel Mcnickle
Executive director summer camps
Board chair
Soni Patel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $256k → $1.5M.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 THE BARSTOW SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
THE BARSTOW SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 THE BARSTOW SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 53% · 2019 33% · 2020 47% · 2021 72% · 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
52% of THE BARSTOW SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
60% of THE BARSTOW 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 $6.6M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like THE BARSTOW 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Barstow Parents Association · disregarded
- Barstow Booster Club · disregarded
- Friends of the Arts · disregarded
- Barstow Management Service · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BARSTOW 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 THE BARSTOW SCHOOL?
- THE BARSTOW SCHOOL (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,486,432 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($8,800,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BARSTOW SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $16,486,432 in grants to THE BARSTOW SCHOOL, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BARSTOW SCHOOL?
- AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BARSTOW SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 37 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