Colorado · Nonprofit
VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,724,911 to it, the largest being TYL FOUNDATION ($2,741,795). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $88M
What Valor Christian Schools does
Mission
See schedule o.in partnership with committed parents, our mission is to provide a purpose-driven college preparatory program, within a vibrant christ-centered environment that empowers students to discover their passions and to develop their unique gifts and abilities while growing in wisdom, knowledge, leadership, faith and service.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
See schedule ovalor christian high school is a christian faith community that provides an independent, college-preparatory school located in highlands ranch, colorado. Valor accomplishes its mission primarily by bringing together groups of individuals (staff, students and volunteers) to engage in bible-centered devotional and educational worship activities in accordance with valor's christian religious beliefs. The central expression of communal worship at valor is the wednesday weekly chapel service for the entire community. The additional activities described below all build upon and extend this worship experience. Standing firmly behind its vision to prepare tomorrow's leaders to transform the world for christ, a valor education provides a rigorous academic program in a christ-centered environment maintaining a 11:1 student to teaching faculty ratio. Valor opened its doors in the fall of 2007 and has since grown from 155 to over 1,200 students serving grades 9th - 12th. The 2020-21 school year marked the organization's 14th year of schooling. As it enters its second decade, the school remains committed to its core values to honor christ in everything it does, to conduct…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $96M to $100M (+4%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 17 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $1.6M → $488k.
17 of 48 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 VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% 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
41% 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 VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 44% · 2019 72% · 2020 37% · 2021 51% · 2022 52% · 2023 44% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
97% of VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M 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
VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,389 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,389 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2021
Organizations like VALOR 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (Colorado) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,724,911 to it, the largest being TYL FOUNDATION ($2,741,795). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $9,724,911 in grants to VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- TYL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,741,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALOR CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 48 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