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THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC

THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,687 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($580,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.2M
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$626k
Grants received
$-963542
Net assets
1/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)80% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2020 Revenue 1174 ($1.1M) Expenses 2422 ($1.1M) Net assets 229 ($114k)2021 Revenue 1723 ($1.6M) Expenses 3147 ($1.4M) Net assets 567 ($282k)2022 Revenue 2828 ($2.6M) Expenses 5737 ($2.5M) Net assets 596 ($296k)2023 Revenue 3242 ($3.0M) Expenses 7225 ($3.1M) Net assets -323 ($-160234)2024 Revenue 3351 ($3.1M) Expenses 7391 ($3.2M) Net assets -2103 ($-1044427)2025 Revenue 3403 ($3.2M) Expenses 7253 ($3.2M) Net assets -1940 ($-963542)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (3403)Expenses (7253)Net assets (-1940)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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 65% · 2021 90% · 2022 96% · 2023 93% · 2024 95% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
19
$40k
20
$236k
21
$137k
22
$124k
23
$95k
24
$13k
25
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $372k → $337.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)93% 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 JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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 JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC.

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2023 100%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.

Where its funders are

93% of THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $580k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 6 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 THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC

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 Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC: 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 THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC?
THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,687 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($580,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $625,687 in grants to THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $580,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JOURNEY SCHOOLS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 6funders 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