New Hampshire · Nonprofit
ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN
ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN (New Hampshire) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,454 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($171,312). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Academy for Science & Design does
Mission
To graduate well-rounded students with the capacity for high achievement and leadership in their colleges, careers, and society; who have in-depth subject mastery; who have hands-on, real world laboratory experiences; who understand technical and social issues inherent in applications of science and engineering; and who are educated as global citizens to view the world in local, national, and global contexts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional: open-enrollment chartered public school for grades 5 through 12, specializing in science, mathematics, engineering, and design. Algebra, biology, chemistry, and physics are taught beginning in the 7th grade.
$3,774,623 spent$6,224,419 earned by the program96% of program spendingStudent activities: there is a wide variety of activities available to asd students, including, but not limited to: future problem solvers, game theory, rocketry, game design & programming, theater, board games, knitting, gimp, juggling, ping pong, puzzles, mock trial, mathcounts, web design, chess club, yoga, technology student association, destination imagination, freshwater fish keeping, roller coaster physics, cross country running, math league, science quiz bowl, organizational skills, dark matter dark energy, sat prep, spanish club, and yearbook. Students are also offered the opportunity to lead their own enrichment course with the aid of an adult supervisor.
$167,088 spent$244,978 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,941,711.
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 $5.1M to $16M (+208%).
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 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Rick Bartle
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 $450 → $84k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN’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
ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 67% · 2020 56% · 2021 60% · 2022 40% · 2023 51% — 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
33% of ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
80% of ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN'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 $90k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k 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.
Against its field
ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% 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 ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN: 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 ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN?
- ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN (New Hampshire) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,454 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($171,312). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $447,454 in grants to ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $171,312 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACADEMY FOR SCIENCE & DESIGN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 21 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