New Jersey · Nonprofit
ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE
ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,170 to it, the largest being GLOBAL ANTI POVERTY AND DISEASE PREVENTION FOUNDATION ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $160k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What Academy of Greatness & Excellence does
Mission
The mission is to develop highly educated, responsible and active students with an interest in the pursuit of knowledge in all its forms grounded in the strengths
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school, which is fully accredited & licensed by the state of nj, is dedicated to excellence in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade education in a loving, nurturing atmosphere at a cost families can afford.
$4,229,917 spent$4,404,303 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,229,917.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.8M to $18M (+278%).
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: 2020 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE’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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $71k → $2k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE’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 OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 76% · 2022 87% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $920 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE has grown faster 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 OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE: 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 OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE?
- ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $160,170 to it, the largest being GLOBAL ANTI POVERTY AND DISEASE PREVENTION FOUNDATION ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $160,170 in grants to ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE?
- GLOBAL ANTI POVERTY AND DISEASE PREVENTION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACADEMY OF GREATNESS & EXCELLENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 5 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