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Trinity Christian School of Fairfax

Trinity Christian School of Fairfax (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,585,422 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($836,842). 7 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
$17M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$17M
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Trinity Christian School of Fairfax does

Mission

Trinity Christian School of Fairfax exists as a community of believers in Jesus Christ who desire to raise their children in the historic Christian faith. As a discipleship school seeking to educate the children of Christian parents, our goal is that the home, the school, and the church will be in consonant agreement regarding the truth and authority of holy scripture and the person and work of our lord Jesus Christ, and thus able to consistently speak the same truth into the lives of our children. Our community strives to nurture students so that God's image is manifested in each of them as they walk humbly with God in their minds, love mercy in their hearts, and act justly in their lives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. A Christian school offering instruction to students in Kindergarten through Grade 12.

    $13,665,687 spentof which $1,937,893 as grants$15,606,512 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,665,687.

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 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($9.8M)2018 Revenue 101 ($14M) Expenses 104 ($12M) Net assets 116 ($11M)2019 Revenue 89 ($12M) Expenses 108 ($12M) Net assets 112 ($11M)2020 Revenue 97 ($13M) Expenses 112 ($13M) Net assets 116 ($11M)2021 Revenue 111 ($15M) Expenses 125 ($14M) Net assets 123 ($12M)2022 Revenue 115 ($15M) Expenses 125 ($14M) Net assets 135 ($13M)2023 Revenue 118 ($16M) Expenses 133 ($15M) Net assets 142 ($14M)2024 Revenue 124 ($17M) Expenses 134 ($15M) Net assets 155 ($15M)2025 Revenue 128 ($17M) Expenses 140 ($16M) Net assets 169 ($17M)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (140)Net assets (169)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 2017 to 2018, from $24M to $26M (+8%).

$24M
$26M
$26M
$25M
$26M
$27M
$28M
$28M
$29M
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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

3% of Trinity Christian School of Fairfax’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.0M
’17
$1.7M
’18
−$412k
’19
$318k
’20
$685k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$652k
’23
$1.4M
’24
$1.3M
’25
8.6
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.

Chief executive

Matthew Thomas

Head of School, CEO

Board chair

Aaron Renenger

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201720182019202320242025
Listed191821182216
Joined·+5+6·+7+2
No longer listed·63·38
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $237k → $134k.

10 of 10 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 Trinity Christian School of Fairfax’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

Trinity Christian School of Fairfax leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 Trinity Christian School of Fairfax.

53%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 67% · 2019 85% · 2020 72% · 2021 49% · 2022 47% · 2023 41% — 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

67% of Trinity Christian School of Fairfax's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of Trinity Christian School of Fairfax'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

Trinity Christian School of Fairfax holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve8.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Trinity Christian School of Fairfax

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
92%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Trinity Christian School of Fairfax?
Trinity Christian School of Fairfax (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,585,422 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($836,842). 7 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 Trinity Christian School of Fairfax have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,585,422 in grants to Trinity Christian School of Fairfax, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Trinity Christian School of Fairfax?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $836,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Trinity Christian School of Fairfax find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 10 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