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WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC

WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,019,530 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,511,109). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$19M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
$29M
20/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Whitfield School Inc does

Mission

A small school community committed to kindness and trust, Whitfield inspires a diverse student body to lead lives of curiosity, integrity, and purpose.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Instruction - Whitfield School is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory day school for students in grades 6-12. Located on a 25-acre campus in west St. Louis County, Whitfield's demanding academic program coupled with the support of a dedicated, world-class faculty prepares graduates for both the college experience and life beyond. With an average class size of 14, Whitfield is able to develop and maintain a community of families who value mutual respect and personal responsibility. At the center of Whitfield's mission is the commitment to character education through the Habits of Mind and Heart curriculum. The habits address six areas of human potential: ethics, scholarship, citizenship, leadership, mindfulness, and cultural competence. For the 2024-2025 school year, 413 students were enrolled.

    $10,984,621 spent$9,748,660 earned by the program
    91% of program spending
  2. Auxiliary Services - includes a luncheon program for 413 students and approximately 85 faculty and staff; a campus store which provides learning materials, snacks, and spirit wear; and administration of student tutoring, transportation, and housing (for international students only) programs. Salaries and taxes for tutoring personnel are reported on lines 5-10 on Part IX as instructed and are not included here.

    $1,084,395 spent$191,133 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,069,016.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2021 Revenue 108 ($12M) Expenses 92 ($12M) Net assets 122 ($21M)2022 Revenue 107 ($12M) Expenses 94 ($12M) Net assets 110 ($19M)2023 Revenue 110 ($13M) Expenses 101 ($13M) Net assets 125 ($22M)2024 Revenue 126 ($14M) Expenses 106 ($13M) Net assets 134 ($23M)2025 Revenue 162 ($19M) Expenses 111 ($14M) Net assets 167 ($29M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (162)Expenses (111)Net assets (167)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $32M to $38M (+19%).

$27M
$31M
$28M
$31M
$32M
$38M
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1.2M
’20
$826k
’21
$416k
’22
−$244k
’23
$979k
’24
$4.5M
’25
4.4
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

Ron Fox

Chair, Board of Trustees

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed252527282325
Joined·+3+12+3+4+6
No longer listed·310294
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $824k → $258k.

13 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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

WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC.

38%
largest funder
61%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 47% · 2021 45% · 2022 34% · 2023 29% — 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

39% of WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of WHITFIELD 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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from Missouri funders.

MN
NY
IN
MO
NC
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

Organizations like WHITFIELD 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 8%Fundraising 6%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

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Questions and answers

Who funds WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC?
WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC (Missouri) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,019,530 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,511,109). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,019,530 in grants to WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,511,109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 32 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