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VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (Arizona) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,720,657 to it, the largest being Bethany Christian Schools Inc ($434,077). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$23M
Revenue FY2025
40
Funders on record
$2.7M
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
23/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve5.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($9.0M) Expenses 100 ($8.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 132 ($12M) Expenses 129 ($11M) Net assets 159 ($3.6M)2021 Revenue 153 ($14M) Expenses 146 ($12M) Net assets 238 ($5.5M)2022 Revenue 201 ($18M) Expenses 171 ($14M) Net assets 417 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 229 ($21M) Expenses 218 ($18M) Net assets 539 ($12M)2024 Revenue 228 ($21M) Expenses 251 ($21M) Net assets 542 ($12M)2025 Revenue 254 ($23M) Expenses 263 ($22M) Net assets 612 ($14M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (254)Expenses (263)Net assets (612)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

10% of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$827k
19
$1.4M
20
$1.8M
21
$4.1M
22
$2.8M
23
$12k
24
$1.3M
25
5.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $119k → $344k.

13 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)41% 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 VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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

VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

71% 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 VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.

16%
largest funder
36%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 40% · 2019 66% · 2020 51% · 2021 31% · 2022 20% · 2023 59%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

30% of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

83% of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

NH
MN
IL
NY
CT
MO
VA
DE
AZ
TN

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 13%Fundraising 4%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: 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 VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (Arizona) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,720,657 to it, the largest being Bethany Christian Schools Inc ($434,077). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,720,657 in grants to VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
Bethany Christian Schools Inc is the largest funder on record, with $434,077 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing