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THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL

THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,797,014 to it, the largest being THE GREG AND INDIA KEITH FOUNDATION ($4,131,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$68M
Funders on record
103
Grants received
$23M
Net assets
$265M
71/103 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What The McCallie School does

Mission

Mccallie is a private school with state-of-the-art facilities nestled on 100 acres on chattanooga's missionary ridge. Since 1905, mccallie has remained committed to providing an outstanding college preparatory education program for boys.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Mccallie provided 992 students in 6th through 12th grades with educational and academic services. Boarding and day students participate in over 40 student-centered organizations and an outstanding array of extra-curricular activities. These include nationally recognized programs in athletics, in the arts, and community service.

    $55,758,795 spentof which $13,577,556 as grants$50,634,219 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,758,795.

02The 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 ($66M) Expenses 100 ($43M) Net assets 100 ($171M)2018 Revenue 75 ($49M) Expenses 103 ($44M) Net assets 110 ($188M)2019 Revenue 84 ($56M) Expenses 120 ($52M) Net assets 111 ($191M)2020 Revenue 80 ($53M) Expenses 106 ($45M) Net assets 110 ($189M)2021 Revenue 91 ($60M) Expenses 105 ($45M) Net assets 133 ($228M)2022 Revenue 120 ($79M) Expenses 117 ($50M) Net assets 123 ($210M)2023 Revenue 96 ($64M) Expenses 133 ($57M) Net assets 131 ($224M)2024 Revenue 97 ($64M) Expenses 141 ($60M) Net assets 143 ($244M)2025 Revenue 102 ($68M) Expenses 149 ($64M) Net assets 155 ($265M)
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Revenue (102)Expenses (149)Net assets (155)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $246M to $273M (+11%).

$224M
$238M
$240M
$246M
$273M
$252M
$266M
$285M
$304M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

16% of THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$23M
’17
$5.2M
’18
$3.8M
’19
$7.5M
’20
$15M
’21
$29M
’22
$6.6M
’23
$3.8M
’24
$3.6M
’25
4.0
months of
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.

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Listed333332283033353335
Joined·+4+4+4+6+9+7+2+5
No longer listed·45846543
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $448k → $5.4M.

30 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 MCCALLIE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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 MCCALLIE SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

48% 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 MCCALLIE SCHOOL.

18%
largest funder
45%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 59% · 2019 32% · 2020 26% · 2021 23% · 2022 37% · 2023 57% — 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

71% of THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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

THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 21 states in all.

WA
ID
NY
PA
NJ
MO
KY
WV
VA
DE
NM
KS
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like THE MCCALLIE 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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 8%Fundraising 5%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

58%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • National Center for the Development of B · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (3) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL?
THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL (Tennessee) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,797,014 to it, the largest being THE GREG AND INDIA KEITH FOUNDATION ($4,131,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $22,797,014 in grants to THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL?
THE GREG AND INDIA KEITH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,131,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 103 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