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Traverse City Christian School Asso

Traverse City Christian School Asso (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,521 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($201,228). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.5M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$358k
Net assets
$3.7M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Traverse City Christian School Asso does

Mission

To glorify God and equip students to transform the world for Jesus Christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Traverse City Christian School educates students in grades Pre-K through 12, helping students to see the world through the lens of Gods Word. In the 24-25 school year, 273 students were enrolled.

    $1,825,674 spent$1,807,289 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,825,674.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2018 Revenue 89 ($1.5M) Expenses 101 ($1.9M) Net assets 85 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.9M) Expenses 106 ($2.0M) Net assets 79 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 104 ($1.8M) Expenses 111 ($2.1M) Net assets 66 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 144 ($2.5M) Expenses 120 ($2.3M) Net assets 74 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 183 ($3.1M) Expenses 117 ($2.2M) Net assets 108 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 170 ($2.9M) Expenses 128 ($2.4M) Net assets 127 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 194 ($3.3M) Expenses 151 ($2.9M) Net assets 146 ($3.7M)2025 Revenue 203 ($3.5M) Expenses 161 ($3.0M) Net assets 145 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (203)Expenses (161)Net assets (145)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $3.6M (+34%).

$3.3M
$3.1M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$2.7M
$3.6M
$4.0M
$4.4M
$4.8M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$185k
’17
−$388k
’18
−$143k
’19
−$326k
’20
$185k
’21
$908k
’22
$472k
’23
$454k
’24
$431k
’25
6.8
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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Listed97877881110
Joined·+0+2+1+2+4+4+4+1
No longer listed·21223412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $43k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Traverse City Christian School Asso’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

Traverse City Christian School Asso leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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

100% 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 Traverse City Christian School Asso.

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 66% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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

100% of Traverse City Christian School Asso'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 $250 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.

WI

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Organizations like Traverse City Christian School Asso

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 23%Fundraising 17%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Sabre Holding Company LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds Traverse City Christian School Asso?
Traverse City Christian School Asso (Michigan) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $357,521 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($201,228). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Traverse City Christian School Asso have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $357,521 in grants to Traverse City Christian School Asso, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Traverse City Christian School Asso?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $201,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Traverse City Christian School Asso find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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