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WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Montana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,976 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($165,703). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.5M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$290k
Net assets
$1.3M
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Whitefish Christian Academy does

Mission

Whitefish Christian Academy, grounded in christian excellence, is dedicated to assisting parents in the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical development of their children for the purpose of sending out christian thinkers and doers of the word to engage and transform our culture for christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Private preschool and elementary education through eighth grade. During the 2015/2016 fiscal year, ninth grade education was added to the program. Smaller classes are maintained to enhance the student/teacher relationships and student accomplishments.

    $1,416,592 spent$1,222,415 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,416,592.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($494k)2018 Revenue 93 ($1.1M) Expenses 93 ($1.0M) Net assets 116 ($574k)2019 Revenue 94 ($1.1M) Expenses 91 ($977k) Net assets 141 ($699k)2020 Revenue 81 ($950k) Expenses 88 ($952k) Net assets 141 ($697k)2021 Revenue 126 ($1.5M) Expenses 97 ($1.0M) Net assets 226 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 125 ($1.5M) Expenses 120 ($1.3M) Net assets 260 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 119 ($1.4M) Expenses 124 ($1.3M) Net assets 270 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 116 ($1.4M) Expenses 125 ($1.3M) Net assets 271 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 130 ($1.5M) Expenses 149 ($1.6M) Net assets 256 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (149)Net assets (256)Peer revenue range

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 $1.0M to $1.3M (+27%).

$730k
$801k
$914k
$1.0M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$92k
’17
$80k
’18
$124k
’19
−$2k
’20
$421k
’21
$167k
’22
$48k
’23
$6k
’24
−$81k
’25
7.4
months of
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

Stephanie Peachey

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1087766899
Joined·+0+6+0+2+1+3+2+1
No longer listed·27031111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $22k → $12k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY’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

WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

57%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 64% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 78% · 2022 90% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.

“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

20% of WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

67% of WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT
KY
DE
NM
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (Montana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,976 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($165,703). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $289,976 in grants to WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY?
GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $165,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WHITEFISH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 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.

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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 11 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