California · Nonprofit
WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,566 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($71,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $300k
- Net assets
- $22M
What Western Christian Schools does
Mission
Mission: Western Christian Schools exists to love the lord jesus christ, to teach the truth, and to serve others. Vision: renewed minds. Tranformed hearts. Forever. Core values: love, truth, service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wcs provides high school students with a quality education in a christ-centered community. Western is a non-denominational, non-sectarian, private high school with non-profit status. Western christian high school currently serves 539 students (does not include ip or part-time psp) from the ethnically diverse regions of los angeles and san bernardino counties.
$8,659,974 spentof which $1,171,644 as grants$10,234,069 earned by the program48% of program spendingWcs provides tk-8 school students with a quality education in a christ-centered community. Western is a non-denominational, non-sectarian, private school with non-profit status. Western christian school currently serves 599 tk-8 students from the ethnically diverse regions of los angeles and san bernardino counties.
$7,168,484 spentof which $1,070,104 as grants$8,471,476 earned by the program40% of program spendingOur international program features 2 levels of esl and currently educates 48 students from many different countries. The international school at Western Christian Schools has a reputation for providing a quality education and boasts a 100% graduation rate. Over 96% of our international graduates go on to the university of their choosing.
$383,370 spentof which $876 as grants$453,054 earned by the program2% of program spendingAll other program services include preschool.
$1,648,765 spentof which $441,382 as grants$1,948,455 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,860,593.
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 $25M to $29M (+13%).
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 10% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of WESTERN 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. 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
David Young
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $78k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS’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
WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
62% 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 WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 66% · 2020 47% · 2021 84% · 2022 30% · 2023 65% — 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
67% of WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
62% of WESTERN 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 $115k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN 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
87% 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 WESTERN 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 WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $299,566 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($71,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $299,566 in grants to WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN 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.
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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 15 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