Oregon · Nonprofit
THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF
THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,744 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $667k
What The Valley School Of does
Mission
The valley school cultivates an environment of curiosity, creativity, and community where every child feels a sense of belonging and is supported to experience academic success and personal growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a montessori inspired charter school
$798,239 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $798,239.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $143k to $570k (+299%).
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: 2017 77% · 2018 66% · 2019 79% · 2020 92% · 2021 75% · 2022 84% · 2023 74% · 2024 77% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kris Von Wald Phd
Executive director
Board chair
Rainy Tilton
President and chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 VALLEY SCHOOL OF’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 VALLEY SCHOOL OF leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 55% · 2022 56% · 2023 98% — 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
THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $554 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 VALLEY SCHOOL OF's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$20k
- OTHER SPEC PAYMENTS-MEDICIAL SERVICES$21
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF: 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 VALLEY SCHOOL OF?
- THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,744 to it, the largest being Alumbra Innovations Foundation ($120,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $153,744 in grants to THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF?
- Alumbra Innovations Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VALLEY SCHOOL OF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 5 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