Virginia · Nonprofit
WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC
WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,975,722 to it, the largest being Rising Phoenix Charitable Foundation ($870,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Wakefield School Inc does
Mission
To foster the character, curiosity, & clear voices the world needs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Founded in 1972, wakefield school is an independent, college-preparatory day school serving students in junior kindergarten through grade 12. With 380 students and an 8:1 student-to-teacher ratio, wakefield offers a personalized, rigorous liberal arts education in a close-knit community. Instructional programs include the tuition cost for all students during a normal school year.
$8,936,088 spentof which $2,354,448 as grants$11,485,451 earned by the program82% of program spendingStudent service programs include all support activities for students and includes sports, field trip fees, and other fees encompassing the daily student education program.
$1,659,199 spent$56,102 earned by the program15% of program spendingAuxiliary programs include all ancillary activities outside of instructional and student services, and includes activities such as after-school activities and summer programs, lunch, and bus fees.
$294,118 spent$317,223 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,889,405.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $20M to $21M (+8%).
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 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC’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. 4 of the last 6 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
George Mclamb
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $441k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 WAKEFIELD SCHOOL 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
WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 74% · 2019 60% · 2020 55% · 2021 47% · 2022 43% · 2023 48% — 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
70% of WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
52% of WAKEFIELD SCHOOL 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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC's revenue grew 37% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC?
- WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC (Virginia) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,975,722 to it, the largest being Rising Phoenix Charitable Foundation ($870,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,975,722 in grants to WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC?
- Rising Phoenix Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $870,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAKEFIELD SCHOOL INC 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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