Arizona · Nonprofit
The Orme School
The Orme School (Arizona) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,761,778 to it, the largest being G CARL BALL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Orme School does
Mission
The orme summer school and summer camp is a very old tradition for the school. The school used to be called The Orme School and summer camp. The alumni base dates far back and is extremely supportive of the school and camp. Campers experience growth, curiosity, and an appreciation fot he natural environment because of its location. The summar camp and venue rentals help support the organization financialy. Summer typically has about 3-5 outside camps utilizing the facilities and has generated approximately $160,000-$350,000 per year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1. Academic program, instruction and student activities for students and a summer camp program with instruction and student activities made up approximately 48% of revenue to conver expenses. Vertually all graduating students wre accepted into colleges and universitites. During the 2024-2025 academic year, the school offered tuition to approximately 150 students.2. 100% of graduating students were accepted into colleges and universities. 3. The orme summer school and summer camp is a very old tradition for the school. The school used to be called The Orme School and summer camp. The alumni base dates far back and is extremely supportive of the school and camp. Campers experience growth, curiosity, and an appreciation fot he natural environment because of its location. The summar camp and venue rentals help support the organization financialy. Summer typically has about 3-5 outside camps utilizing the facilities and has generated approximately $160,000-$350,000 per year.
$3,779,776 spent$4,312,111 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,779,776.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.6M to $0 (−100%).
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: 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $212k → $526k.
9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Orme 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 Orme School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 Orme School.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 62% · 2021 57% · 2022 50% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“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
23% of The Orme School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
The Orme School draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $808k 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 Orme 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Orme 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 Orme School?
- The Orme School (Arizona) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,761,778 to it, the largest being G CARL BALL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($2,100,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Orme School have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $4,761,778 in grants to The Orme School, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Orme School?
- G CARL BALL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Orme School find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 26 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