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TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC

TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,502,742 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,156,337). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$25M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$5.5M
Net assets
$24M
16/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill Inc does

Mission

To educate students in transitional kindergarten to grade twelve within the framework of christian faith and conviction--teaching the classical tools of learning; providing a rich yet unhurried education; and communicating truth, goodness, and beauty.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Trinity school of durham and chapel hill serves approximately 600 students in transitional kindergarten to grade twelve, within the framework of christian faith and convictionteaching the classical tools of learning; providing a rich yet unhurried education; and communicating truth, goodness, and beauty.

    $11,758,379 spentof which $2,360,270 as grants$15,399,593 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,758,379.

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 ($8.0M) Expenses 100 ($8.3M) Net assets 100 ($9.1M)2018 Revenue 106 ($8.5M) Expenses 102 ($8.5M) Net assets 102 ($9.3M)2019 Revenue 172 ($14M) Expenses 112 ($9.2M) Net assets 149 ($14M)2020 Revenue 113 ($9.0M) Expenses 95 ($7.9M) Net assets 159 ($15M)2021 Revenue 137 ($11M) Expenses 135 ($11M) Net assets 160 ($15M)2022 Revenue 146 ($12M) Expenses 147 ($12M) Net assets 158 ($14M)2023 Revenue 166 ($13M) Expenses 173 ($14M) Net assets 151 ($14M)2024 Revenue 219 ($18M) Expenses 187 ($15M) Net assets 175 ($16M)2025 Revenue 312 ($25M) Expenses 199 ($17M) Net assets 269 ($24M)
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Revenue (312)Expenses (199)Net assets (269)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 2024 to 2025, from $28M to $36M (+29%).

$18M
$17M
$22M
$22M
$26M
$26M
$26M
$28M
$36M
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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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

37% of TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$284k
’17
$36k
’18
$4.5M
’19
$1.1M
’20
−$250k
’21
−$493k
’22
−$997k
’23
$2.1M
’24
$8.4M
’25
5.6
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.

Board chair

Harmony Garges

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151716141615161515
Joined·+3+0+0+4+4+5+1+5
No longer listed·11225425
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $64k → $251k.

16 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC’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 SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86% 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 SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC.

57%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 28% · 2019 57% · 2020 49% · 2021 54% · 2022 50% · 2023 36% — 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

47% of TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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

86% of TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC'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 $798k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 9 states.

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin34% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 26%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
64%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC?
TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,502,742 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($3,156,337). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $5,502,742 in grants to TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,156,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 27 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