Texas · Nonprofit
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS (Texas) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,837,007 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($20,185,108). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $39M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Yellowstone Academy Inc Dba Yellowstone Schools does
Mission
At yellowstone, our mission is to inspire, empower, and invest in students to achieve their highest potential and fulfill their intended purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Yellowstone schools provide a high-quality, christian education for students in houston's historic third ward community. Most students served live in communities without access to strong educational opportunities. Yellowstone is committed to partnering with students and families, regardless of financial means, to provide life-changing experiences and an excellent education, to develop faith and character, and to prepare scholars for life. Over the 2024-25 school year, the academy served 257 students and families and more than 150 alumni.at yellowstone, we couple strong curriculum, dynamic teachers, and robust athletic and extracurricular programming with transportation assistance, free daily meals, and social services to serve our students in the best way possible. The school also connects with the parents of our students on consistent basis to promote strong family participation in their child's educational success and individual well-being. Yellowstone sets high academic expectations for our students and places a premium on the development of their faith, character, and responsibility.
$5,339,270 spent$601,078 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,339,270.
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 $17M to $6.4M (−63%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 3% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 Dominy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 37 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $3.6M.
18 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 29% · 2019 74% · 2020 75% · 2021 28% · 2022 51% · 2023 36% — 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
52% of YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
64% of YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE 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 $14M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS?
- YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS (Texas) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,837,007 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($20,185,108). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $38,837,007 in grants to YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,185,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 112 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