Ohio · Nonprofit
WELLINGTON SCHOOL
WELLINGTON SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,507,223 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($5,150,640). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Wellington School does
Mission
We help students find their purpose and realize their potential for tomorrow's world. Our values: be curious, be yourself, be ambitious, be empathetic, be responsible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
An independent, coeducational, preschool through 12, college preparatory day school with an enrollment of 717 students.
$15,970,134 spentof which $3,358,492 as grants$20,947,758 earned by the program99% of program spendingThe wellington initiative is a program designed to monitor student engagement through technological means. Software was designed for the purpose of allowing teachers to pinpoint the needs of their students. Feedback is gathered from students 6 times a year, and the data is then processed to give educators necessary information to build upon their current methodology. This software is distributed to other educational establishments.
$219,642 spent$159,622 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,189,776.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $31M to $36M (+17%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 4% · 2023 15% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
James Croft
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $301k → $465k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 WELLINGTON 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
WELLINGTON SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 WELLINGTON SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 74% · 2019 97% · 2020 73% · 2021 83% · 2022 61% · 2023 78% — 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
60% of WELLINGTON SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
94% of WELLINGTON SCHOOL'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 $399k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like WELLINGTON 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WELLINGTON 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 WELLINGTON SCHOOL?
- WELLINGTON SCHOOL (Ohio) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,507,223 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($5,150,640). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WELLINGTON SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $6,507,223 in grants to WELLINGTON SCHOOL, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WELLINGTON SCHOOL?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,150,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WELLINGTON SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing