Montana · Nonprofit
WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,257 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($11,221). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $262k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $117k
What Way Christian School does
Mission
The Way Christian School exists to glorify god by providing an educational community to "train up a...child in the way they should go..." (proverbs 22:6a) so that they "will love god with all of their heart, soul, mind and strength." (mark 12:30)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Way Christian School is a nondenominational christian school serving children preschool through 12th grade. The school is located in beautiful livingston, montana. The Way Christian School celebrates the diversity of belief and practice found within the larger christian community and is committed to preserving the unity of all christians and the bond of peace. The Way Christian School seeks to build a safe, nurturing environment where students and families can grow and flourish with excellent staff and curriculum. Twcs has 58 students enrolled and endeavors to offer the very best academic and spiritual education to it's students. Subjects being taught are bible, math, science, reading, writing & grammar, history, spelling, print & cursive handwriting, physical education, and latin. Other activities and offerings of twcs are spelling bee, ski pe, world music, montana history, and various learning field trips.
$206,359 spentof which $11,744 as grants$195,273 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $206,359.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $48k to $106k (+119%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $6k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’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
WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL's grant income comes from Montana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: 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 WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Montana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,257 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($11,221). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $17,257 in grants to WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.
- Who is the largest funder of WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL?
- GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $11,221 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 3 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