Illinois · Nonprofit
THE FIELD SCHOOL
THE FIELD SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,564,114 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,853,106). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What The Field School does
Mission
The Field School is a diverse, classical school that feeds the hearts and minds of children through rigorous study rooted in a christ-centered environment. Students grow intellectually, socially and spiritually, deepening their passion for lifelong learning, selfless service, and a desire for lasting relationships amid diverse community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Field School is a diverse classical school that feeds the hearts and minds of children through rigorous study rooted in a christ-centered environment. Students grow intellectually, socially and spiritually, deepening their passion for lifelong learning, selfless service, and a desire for lasting relationships amid diverse community. The school provided learning for 277 students, of various backgrounds, from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
$4,981,780 spentof which $1,829,901 as grants$4,131,045 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,981,780.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $8.5M to $16M (+91%).
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 4% · 2023 7% · 2024 5% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of THE FIELD SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $70k → $429k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $955k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Field School Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FIELD SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FIELD 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
THE FIELD SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 FIELD SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 75% · 2019 78% · 2020 52% · 2021 87% · 2022 61% · 2023 36% — broadly stable.
“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
62% of THE FIELD SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
77% of THE FIELD 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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M 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.
Against its field
THE FIELD SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FIELD 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Field School Support Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FIELD 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 FIELD SCHOOL?
- THE FIELD SCHOOL (Illinois) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,564,114 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,853,106). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FIELD SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,564,114 in grants to THE FIELD SCHOOL, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FIELD SCHOOL?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,853,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FIELD SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 27 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