California · Nonprofit
VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,798,608 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $97M
- Funders on record
- 55
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $73M
What Valley Christian Schools does
Mission
Valley christian school's (vcs) mission is to provide a nurturing environment offering quality education supported by a strong foundation of christian values in partnership with parents, equipping students to become leaders to serve god, their families, and positively impact their communities and the world. Students attending the school during this year were 2,788 in grades k-12.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Valley Christian Schools is dedicated to providing religious education along with training in academics, arts and athletics for students in grades k-12. Vcs is a religious corporation that seeks to lead students into greater maturity in their christian faith. It seeks to provide students an education that teaches students to do all that they accomplish, "as unto the lord" (col. 3:17). Academics - the academic journey continues for students as they pursue their educational passions while growing stronger in their christian faith. With access to a rich combination of core classes and electives in a rigorous, comprehensive college preparatory environment, vcs students have the opportunity to explore a variety of (cont. On sch. O) disciplines that lead them to achieve their god-intended purposes.conservatory - the conservatory of the arts is to connect students' god-given talents with extraordinary opportunities for growth and service. The conservatory of the arts offers students an opportunity to further refine their god-given artistic talents by majoring or minoring in one of seven disciplines, including music, visual arts, dance arts, cinematic arts, theatre arts, integrated arts,…
$74,678,253 spentof which $7,424,850 as grants$92,383,701 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $74,678,253.
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 2022 to 2023, from $121M to $129M (+6%).
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.
2% of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Michael Sprauve
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 18 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $521k.
13 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 55 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 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 33% · 2019 90% · 2020 37% · 2021 47% · 2022 50% · 2023 43% — 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
31% of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
69% of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS'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 $2.4M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M 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.
Against its field
VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's revenue grew 70% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $189 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $189
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 VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Quest Institute for Quality Education · exempt
- The Association for Ekklesia in Education · exempt
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 (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,798,608 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,000,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $7,798,608 in grants to VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 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 California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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